Thursdays are my favorite days.

hi! 

Today was the sweetest day. This semester,  I spend my Thursdays in a 5th grade elementary classroom. It has been the best experience, and each time I leave the classroom on Thursday, I am just overwhelmed with joy & thankfulness & happiness in general.  Even though school can sometimes be overwhelming, being there really reminds me why I want to become a teacher. 

Today, while I was in the 5th grade, I thought about life a lot and the different stages of it. There's a beauty in every stage that we all ought to embrace, whether you're young or old, but there's something about the rawness, innocence, honesty and purity of being a kid that is such gold. I sat there today watching them create spaceships and people out of paper, markers, and tape. I love that they can do that, have fun without toys (or, I guess electronics these days) and make what they can with what they have. I can see that they let their imaginations go and come up with all kinds of things that they put a lot of thought into.  

There really is something so incredible about the heart and mind of a child. Their writings, drawings, and imagination. Everything about them is so inspiring! There is really a beauty to imagination, laughing at the littlest things that aren't funny to adults, coloring outside the lines, words that are spelled almost incorrectly, and other things adults don't understand but they do anyways. There's so much beauty in the heart and mind of a child that makes them all gold. Sure, they can get mean and disobedient, but...

they sure do inspire me.