Work is fun. I love my students (some are such characters... others are character builders), the faculty is really inviting, and I generally enjoy teaching.
Highlights of the past two weeks:
-being asked out (jokingly, obviously) by a student
-being asked about my ethnicity (apparently being Catholic rules out the chance I might be Native American? Not sure what these kids are thinking)
-being asked about my age (the current guess is 23, a belief solidified by the fact that whenever they say I'm 23, I laugh and therefore prove it's true haha)
-shocking my students when they found out I had a tattoo
The first test I'm giving out is on Friday. Big deal. Kids are freaking out. I'm freaking out trying to make the test before Friday.
Homecoming is also apparently a huuuge deal at this school. Or maybe homecoming is always a huge deal in high school and I've just forgotten. There is a door decorating contest that I'm hoping goes well for my homeroom. I predict a shabby showing so far, judging purely on my homeroom students.
However, as well as work is going, it doesn't eradicate the fact that I find life at home lonely. I don't really have any close friends in town. Most of my friends have schedules incompatible with constant communication with me. It'd be nice to find someone to talk to on a semi regular basis who is in a similar place in life. I don't really make things easier for myself I suppose. I haven't really gone searching for close friends in my hometown. To a certain extent, I don't know how possible it is for me to find close friends my age. I'm sure I can find good friends my age (with some serious research), but I don't know about close. Most people, and by most I'd venture to say 99%, who are recent grads and living in this area are here because they want to live in this area and work in this area and settle here. I'm still stuck in my indefinitely long "I want to leave this state and area for good" phase. I have a hard time imagining how well I'd relate to someone who is happy to settle here when all I want to do is escape. In high school, my only close friends were the kids with similar views on escaping the state for college. I just don't relate or understand people who are content to remain within the same 50 mile radius of where they were born. It's hard for me to fathom. I need to make friends soon though or I'll sink into depression from the sheer loneliness. As I've always said, I can't handle isolation.
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Charleston does feel very empty right now...Summers here can be fun, but once Fall hit and people went back to school, it seemed like my core group of friends went up to WVU, some over to Marshall, and a rare couple are still in town. But...that's Charleston, I guess.
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