Yes, I really am old enough to be a substitute teacher.

Friday was my first day as a subsitute teacher. I was called after school already started. The lady on the phone asked if I was busy. I said no. She asked how soon I could get there. The middle school I had to go to was really close so that was good. When I went to the office I walked in and told the people there who I was and they had kind of an odd look on thier face. (1st time I thought the title)

I was there at the end of first hour/period/class/ whatever you want to call it. The lady who was there before me told me what she did and left. There were mumbles of she’s our sub/she can’t be a sub and confused faces. (2nd time I thought it)

Two of the classes had another teacher there so I didn’t actually have to do much with the students. I during the two class periods I graded papers.

During the last class I had to go to a different room. The other classes were 7th graders. This one was 8th. When I walked in there was more surprise and I once again thought the title of this post.

One thing I learned is students really need to not laugh when subs mispronounce someones name. During one of the classes I had to do it. The names were written by the teacher and not on a computer. I couldn’t really read her handwriting so trying to figure out thier names was kind of difficult.

It was kind of wierd be a teacher in a school that I used to be a student at. It also seemed odd having people call me Ms. Last Name.

How old am I?

I am 22 years old. I have been told I look as young as 13. The oldest I have been told I look is 20. When I go to casinos I am asked for my id a few times. When having any alcohol at restaurants I always am asked for my id. When I tell people I graduated this summer they ask where I am going to college. They think I graduated from highschool. I tell them I graduated from college. Sometimes they look surprised. During my internship at the police department people asked if I was the kid of whoever I was with sometimes. I didn’t think I looked that young or they looked that old.

I want to find a job working with kids. I think I am going to be a substitute teacher. I have been told that I will probably look the same age as some of the kids. I think I need to make myself look older. I have been told with the way my hair is now (short with bangs) I look older then how I had it before (long no bangs). I wasn’t sure if I wanted to keep my hair short of have it long again. Now I think I will keep it short. I do like looking younger than what I am. I don’t want to always look older, but it would be nice to seem older than the kids I would like to work with.

I was on Myspace or facebook a few days ago and I realized that my cousin is a freshman in high school. That made me feel kind of old. How is she in high school already?? Sigh.

Final police department internship thoughts:

I was really nervous at the beginning, but it really wasn’t that bad.

I got a lot better at talking to people. (Yay! for being less shy!!)

It was probably my favorite thing ever. I’m glad it was required to graduate.

For the last few weeks of so you think you can dance I won’t be able to talk about it with J. We have talked about it every week since it started. She is one of my favorites.

I think I’ll go to the picnic thingy. I don’t really want to see a dead pig, but they said they would have some potato salad I could eat. Ha.

When I told people it was my last week/day they seemed kind of surprised. I was there for over two months so I think they got kind of used to me.

One thing I liked was that I almost never had to do typical boring blagh internship things.

If I ever have to go to the police department for anything in the future I am dressing warm regardless of the weather. It was freezing in there.

I’m going to miss it there a lot.

Police Department Internship Day 31

I finally got to be in the car at night. I was there from 7pm-3am. I was worried about being super tired, but I did okay. I lasted until about 230am and then I felt really tired. While I was there we had to go to two bars. The first one we weren’t really doing anything at the bar it was just in the parking lot near it. The second one was a car that was broken into at the bar. At both of them girls came out and flirted with the cops. Sorry bar girls, but regardless of how many time you tell them you’ve been bad and should be handcuffed I don’t think they are going to do.

Police Department Internship Day 30

In a car from 2pm-10pm. So far nothing too big had happened so I wasn’t thinking anything big would happen. We had some little stuff and then finally something happened. We were at a grocery store for something and on the radio they said something about a car kind of close to where we were. The car I was in and another car ended up following the van through a few Indiana towns and then into Chicago. We didn’t catch the guy because our car wasn’t close enough and the other car broke, but it was probably the most interesting thing to happen during my internship.