so many hours in just one day

I've been with TFA for almost two weeks and it feels like forever! It's incredible the amount of information that has been thrown at us, and it's scary that we don't have time to not pay attention.

Some of the thinks I have learned so far:

- I've been placed to teach rising first graders over the summer

- The average income of my students' family of four is 14,000 a year

- Not to drink the water from the fountain at my school because the water probably isn't safe

- The literacy statistics of third grade are used to project prison beds

- Lesson plans stink, for real

- 5 am will always feel like 5 am no matter what, even if you go to sleep at 9