Daring to Be » Guilty confession.

I am terrible with names, and do I mean terrible. As in, I actually don’t really listen when I am introduced to people. For some reason, I just sort of zone out. It goes something like this: “Hi, my name is insert white noise here.”

Not exactly something to be proud of, especially as a future teacher who will have to memorize new students’ names every year.

The reason I bring this up is because tomorrow afternoon I am going bowling with the cooperating teacher and grade five class from last March’s two week student teach. Considering that I occasionally had trouble with the students’ names even at the end of my two weeks with them, I can just imagine how embarassed I’ll be tomorrow when I don’t remember which face goes with which name, for I haven’t seen them since March.

Not to mention we won’t be in the classroom. If we were in the classroom, with the seating plan I know, I’d probably be fine. Running around a bowling alley… that’s a whole other story!

I’m thinking I’ll be pulling a grandma tomorrow- my grandma has 18 grandchildren so she goes through at least 3 names before reaching the right one. Instead of Breanne, I am “Nicole-Amy-Megan-BREANNE!”

Maybe I’ll get my student teaching partner, Abby, to tutor me on the students’ names to hopefully keep me from making a complete fool of myself!