Home Stretch

Next week is my last week living in Gettysburg and teaching at the high school. This week I am finishing with my environmental science class.

It is bittersweet that my time with my most difficult class has come to an end. Yes, they gave me more problems than I hoped for at the beginning of this internship. But by the end, they really have come around and actually listen to me. I often left that class quite frustrated and disappointed, but it all worked out. We ended by taking our last test, and going outside to clean the last of our blue bird boxes and just hanging out and reflecting afterwards.

My engines class is really a lot of fun. They all work pretty well, and it is good to see them actually learning things previously completely unfamiliar to them. Quinn came down to visit this week, it was good to have a buddy there for the day to just talk about our experiences and what is coming up. She even helped me facilitate the lesson in engines.

Next week, I am just teaching engines and getting caught up on my Penn State assignments. I am going on field trips to the national zoo, to plant chestnut trees, and to stock trout. It should be a good week to end on.