What a crazy August

I never thought that I would be relieved to see a month come to an end, but I am relieved to see August    2011 in it's last week. I am not here to say that August has been a terrible month, but it definitely has been a  very emotional and draining month on me both physically and mentally.

I did learn some wonderful things this month for instance, I really learned how to study for a standardize, multiple choice test. Not only did I learn how to study, I learned most of the material that I needed to know for the Praxis test within a week and a couple of days! While I always wear a bike helmet, I learned just how valuable they really are towards protecting our priceless and ever important heads. I also learned how much I hate health insurance, but how valuable it is to have it when needed. I also learned that I can do math despite 20 plus years of thinking that I would never be able to do basic math like balance a check book, or figure out the tip on my own....well I can both things and more! I have learned to have a bit of confidence in my ability to still learn (especially something like math) regardless of how long I have struggled with learning things.

After all that I have learned, why am I glad to see August get taken out to sea and not come back till next year? Well this month has just been a crazy roller coaster ride for me. I was in the ICU of a hospital with with this horrible tube shoved down my throat. I was x-rayed for broken knees, and wrists because they were the size of balloons as well as multi head scans due to a bit of bleeding in my brain... all from riding my bike home from yoga. This accident caused me to reschedule my first two weeks of student teaching, which looking back was probably a blessing because it forced me to just recover, study, and study and study some more for my Praxis test, which I passed by ONE POINT! It also helped me to see that I was living a life that was way too crazy for me to handle and be successful in. So while this month has been crazy, it's also been extremely humbling...but thank goodness it is almost over.

Here's to September, may it be a lot less dramatic and crazy!