Week 3.

     It's the last week of class! I'm excited now, but when next week comes around I know it's going to be crunch time. This week so far has been a pretty good week. Our class is figuring out what we are going to be doing for presentation night. We're are going to teach people the games that learned. I'm teaching craps, so it should be fun. Winterum comes to a close tomorrow and after that all of us seniors go our separate ways. I've talked to more people this year then I have in years pasts and made friends with some people I never thought I would have. A few of them are going out of town. I know we all say that we will stay in touch now, but once we all get involved in our Walkabouts were going to be busy.
     I'm finding it really strange that I'm making my own schedule. I'm planning when and where I have to be and what I'm doing instead of having someone telling me what I'm doing. I have my times worked our where I'm at my Walkabout Monday through Thursdays.
     My Walkabout is all set up now. I got a hold of a mentor for me and she is over joyed to have me in her classroom. I am at Ridgeview Middle School, working with an Intervention Specialist. My mentor's career is the career I want. I think I'm really lucky to have exactly what I want in a career as my Walkabout. I already know I can do the job because I have such a love for teaching, and I've done a lot of volunteering in this career. still though, a part of me is scared. I know it's natural, but I can't seem to shake it off. i'm scared of college. I'm scared of growing up. People have always told me that each decision effects your life, and my concern is. Everyone in my family is so proud. That's what I hear about. My brothers telling me to go to college. Make something of myself. Be the best thing that I can be. They've told me to not mess up like they did. Thus far I haven't, but sometimes the pressure is a lot. That's when i get scared. Everything up to now has just been talk. The Graham school has given us the opportunity to find ourselves before we get tossed out on our behinds in cooperate America. This way we have more knowledge then an average senior.

     Well, I guess I have an experience of a lifetime.

Walkabout Week 2.

     This week seem to fly by very quickly. It's hard to think about there only being one week until Walkabout starts. I've made more progress with Ridgeview. It's still not all set up. I'm afraid that it won't start on time. I feel like I ran out of time. It was just playing phone tag with them and not much getting accomplished like it should be. I feel like I should have done this Walkabout thing more on my own, but it's hard to manage what's going on with trying to balance work, school, and Walkabout. I'm not even sure if Ridgeview is going to work out the way I want it too. The Principal said she wasn't going to be involved with it at all and it was all between Mrs. Burt, an intervention specialist and my mentor. I was hoping to be more involved in the school as a whole. Now I seem to kind of be stuck where I'm at. I don't know, I mean it will be fun, but it's a much smaller scale then I thought. When it comes to my second Walkabout, I know I will have more opportunities then I have at Ridgeview.
     I'm pretty sure I'm passing my Winterum as well. I really took an intreast in Game Theory. I'm pretty excited for presentation night. Our class plans on teaching how to play the games that we learned how to play. I never really thought there would be so much math as there is in these games.
     Also Hannah and Cady left for their Walkabout. That was pretty sad because they were friends, but I'm also so excited for them. I'm really glad it worked out. I got to see some people that were out on Walkabout during Senior Seminar, and got to catch up with the other seniors. It's cool to hear everyone's experiences and what they are doing. Everyone I've talked to seems to glow about it when they talk about it. It's pretty cool.

Week 1.

      I am starting this blog so everyone can access and see what I'm doing for Walkabout. For those of you don't know exactly what Walkabout is, it's an internship that we have all day for our second semester seniors. This is to help us take on responsibilities of an adult and learn more about our interests. As most of you know I want to be a teacher so my Walkabouts are based on that. My first one is at Ridgeview Middle School, and my second one at Duhlburg. 
      I'm taking a Game Theory as my Winterum this year. We are learning how to play games such as Hold 'em, Black Jack 21, and Craps. We learn the math that goes along with it. I've so far learned how to count the cards in Black Jack and see how many high cards are left in the deck. I learned the percentage of winning a hand in Hold 'em and figure out the probability of getting the cards you need to make your hand better. Right now we are learning Craps. I love my Winterum because I get to learn these things.
     I am also still trying to get a hold of Ridgeview. It seems to be pretty hard to get in contact with them to get my Walkabout set up. It's becoming very stressful and scary to know it's not set in stone yet. I have everything I need finished, just need the meeting with my mentor. I never thought when I was an underclassman that Walkabout would be so scary. I've always been confident in what I do. When everyone let go and I had to start doing everything for myself I saw what I had to do to get everything done. I had to do it alone. I'm pretty proud that I've gotten this far though. I just recently turned 18, so of course I had more things I had to worry about.
     I also took my SAT's, and got my scores back last week. They weren't as high as I hoped so I plan on re-taking them to get a better score. I haven't been to site this week either. I called my site and talked to the secretary and she informed me that they were having an early release and I was already not going to make it due to the weather. I took Today off to head up to Ridgeview, and I can't meet with her until after lunch. So I'm hoping all goes well at my interview today to set up how my time there is going to go.
     I'm excited, but worried at the same time. I'm excited to start being independent and learn how to do things on my own and not depend on my parents to do things for me i can do for myself. I'm hoping to get the most out of this as I can. It's kind of sad to watch everyone leave for Walkabout, but everyone in our class seems to have something pretty cool they are doing and learning. This should be fun.