Emily taught her first college class this fall. She also TA'd her first class. She LOVED doing it. I was always sure that she would do well and enjoy teaching, but it was great to see it for real. Her kids loved her and learned a lot. For the class she taught, she had them do final presentation on the last Friday of the semester and brought food and they invited X and I to come watch. It was awesome.
And now she is spending the spring and summer semesters doing field work and writing her dissertation and staying home with X, as I believe I have mentioned before. And we are going to be so broke, because this is her fourth year of grad school and only the first three had a stipend and she got paid for teaching, but no teaching again until the fall (and that's only if she gets the job she applied for; we find out next Friday), so no paycheck.
For the last week, we've been kind of jokingly kicking around the idea of her applying for unemployment. We weren't seriously considering it, because the idea that the state would pay her to be a stay at home graduate student mom just didn't seem possible. And then, she sat down tonight and went online and it turns out that she actually qualifies for unemployment and she will receive a packet in the mail and after a week waiting period, next week she can file for her first check. I cannot begin to say how amazing it will be to get any money at all for the next seven months while she stays home with X and does field work. We had just planned on being even more broke then usually and I have no idea how much money she qualifies for, but even $50 a week would be amazing!
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