New News!

I have some additional exciting news to share with everyone (and no, I'm NOT pregnant!!)-I'm going to have the opportunity to teach a class here at Concordia this fall! I'm excited and nervous, and scared all in one! I received official approval to teach this morning, in fact. It will be a GS 101 course. It's just a General Studies course that all freshman take. It's basically a course that helps freshman learn the proper skills to do research and to serve as an orientation to college life and the relationships you build. It's much like any freshman orientation course that many colleges have. They were short instructors this fall due to some shifting of other professors, so even though Tim Ohlman (the team leader for the GS 101 program) said he was looking for a miracle by the end of the week or he'd be condensing the courses, I told him, "I wouldn't consider myself your miracle, but I can sure be a warm body to stand in front of the class!" :) :) As you all know while I have the degrees to back it up, I lack the actual teaching experience. So many people have confidence in me, I just need to get my feet wet and what a better opportunity than this to try out teaching for the first time! So please pray for me that I can be successful, not to mention, I have 3 weeks to plan a course and I have to move at the same time (not that many of you can't relate to that!). I know many people move and start new jobs all the time, but it's still scary! It is kind of cool to think that I'm actually an "adjunct professor"! That just sounds weird!! I'll still be doing my current job full time without cutting my hours...I'll just not take a lunch on the two days I teach to help make up the difference. Anyway, I just wanted to share that with everyone! This all transpired as of last Thursday, so it was a quick decision. I figured if I can do my Masters, have a baby, and work full time, I can do this!