Loving My Job

This past week I had the opportunity to teach a workshop on Gravity to first and second graders. Even though I taught the same workshop 6 different times, I never got bored with it and loved each session. I found it a challenge to assess each class and see who the possible problem children were going to be and what I could do to manage classroom discipline. I found it engaging to discover the level of understanding that each student was at and try to tailor my lesson so that everyone knew what was going on and could have a good time. Most of all, I loved seeing the look of wonder on the children's faces when you show them something new with science. This time around, the greatest response came from demonstrating centrifigal force and how I could keep a tennis ball in a plastic jar without it falling to the ground due to gravity. Then, yesterday I had a birthday party where I got to work with dry ice, cotton candy, and even ignited a hydrogen balloon on fire! What can I say, I have the best job ever! So many days I come away from it all thinking, "...and I get paid to have this much fun?!"


Here I am in my Mad Science lab coat and holding a beaker bubbling over with carbon dioxide from some dry ice.