A Little About Me (from another perspective)

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Student teaching has been a constant reminder that I am in that awkward professional stage. To others in the field I am young and merely a student, yet to those that I teach I am a teacher and an authority. It's quite strange. I wanted to share with you some of the things I have been asked in the past three weeks:

• (by a teacher) Are you a new student?
• (by a student) Are you Mr. Host's substitute?
• Are you a JMU professor?
• Do you have a kid? (to which I responded "Do you mean a human child? No!")
• Are you Mr. Host's wife? 
• Will you be our teacher next year?
• So will you be teaching us until Mr. Host returns in March? (when a student assumed that because I was present, my host teacher must be leaving).

It's really quite strange to be seen as an adult by students. Do I really look like I could have a child? I have never been asked before if I have a kid and it was quite unnerving!