I don't ever want to be a teacher!!!! No offence to all of you who happen to be teachers, I think you are awesome and I really don't see how you do it. But I would simply go insane. All that paperwork, I couldn't handle it. I have seven students now, and I only talk to them over the phone and correct some of their work. But to have to do all it, for upwards of 25-30 students... No, not for me. I figure if I pay my dues now, I will not end up in the small private Catholic school in the Midwest...

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On another note, Henryk Gorecki is amazing. One of my tutors lent me Gorecki's Symphony No 3, the Symphony of Sorrowful Songs. I must have listened to it three or four times that first day... I sat at my desk, watching the rain pour down, consumed in the pain, the sadness, the sheer beauty of it. And at the same time, it is also full of hope. The very ending of the symphony, an A major third (I think), leaves you with a feeling of, I don't know how to express it...its almost a feeling of life, the indominatable spirit of man. And the text for the songs is heart rending.
Right now I am listening to Gorecki's Miserere. There are seven Polish folk songs on the album, and I am completly in love. I wish I knew more about my Polish ancestry. I suppose that is one downside of being an American, it is so easy to loose track of where you are from and who came before. Some day, I will learn...