School Didn't Show Me How To:

Happy Friday.

Dawson's Creek has been my latest time-filler.  It used to be the IT show.  Now it seems incredibly cheesy; although it was fun to see all the styles I remember from junior high.  Anyway, today I made it to the finale of the show.  In case you haven't seen it- majorly sad.  The whole time I watched it, I was telling myself to keep it together- not to cry.  "Conceal, don't feel.  Don't let it show!"

Now that I'm through that, I'm watching World War Z.  I'm not into the whole zombie fad that seems to be taking over the nation, but this is a seriously good movie.

Well, the writing prompt today is to tell you things I've learned that school didn't teach me.


Sometimes I think that list is made up of everything that matters.
(Hahaha, sorry, Mrs. Dare.)
But honestly, I think the most important things I've learned to do/am learning to do, are things that I've learned through real world experiences.  (After all, to my dismay my education hasn't landed me any jobs yet.  I've been forced to lean on my sparkling personality.  Haha.)
My jobs have taught me to serve, and more importantly, to serve with a smile, to put others' interests ahead of my own, and to be polite when someone doesn't seem to deserve it.  
Thankfully, I had the opportunity to work in a way that taught me a little about parenting too.  I guess you could take a foods course and a life skills course to learn how to cook and maybe sew a little.  You could take a health class to save your child's life if he or she was choking.  But to really be a parent?  That, I'm learning all from watching people around me.
I'm trying to learn to be a good wife, and that just wasn't covered in any class curriculum.  Trying to figure out how to be supportive, encouraging, prayerful, selfless, respectful.  (I think sometimes, in school, respectful gets confused with obedient.)
I suppose I could summarize all this by saying that I don't think school, and by school, I mean the information covered in all the different curriculum, taught me how to be an adult.  I think all of that came from experience and examples, not lesson plans.
(Please note that I have an extreme respect and gratitude for teachers!  My mom is a teacher, and so are many of my friends, and I know all too well the amount of dedication and care they put into their students and their education.)
Well, that's all from me for today.  Have a good weekend.
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