Wow, what a week it has been....

So my first few weeks of graduate school have been a whirlwind and I find myself in Atlanta at my girlfriends house attempting to write after losing epically at a game of Monopoly and Scrabble. School is both over and underwhelming, although what i've been doing and reading is challenging and time consuming, I feel like it is completely different than my previous educational experiences and with trying to balance work and personal time it is extremely challenging.

So my girlfriends mother is a former educator and now works for a NFP consulting firm working on integrating technology into schools and the growth of vocational education into general high schools. She gives me so much information about what I'm going to be doing, how to control my classroom that it is overwhelming when I've only been in the program for 2 weeks, only had minimal classroom work, and have yet to actually set into a school. Needless to say I am leaving Atlanta tomorrow with 2 extra books to add to the growing pile of future reading material. As fun as I find this I'm still apprehensive about how I will perform when I get into a school environment, Will I be able to control my classroom? Will I be able to copy the teaching styles of the teachers that were best for me? Will I fall flat on my face? Will I be able to find a teaching position?... Maybe they are questions for another time, right now I still have 18 months of training before I hop into the teaching world permanently.