Welcome readers to the blog of the SEA0410 (SEA meaning Special Education Assistant) class of Stenberg College. As the official “blogger” it is my intention to give you an insider’s view of all the crazy stuff that happens behind our closed doors. Very often everyone can hear us, but no one ever really seems to know exactly what we are up to….

For many students at Stenberg, we, the Special Education Assistant’s are a bit of a mystery. Everyone at Stenberg is learning things in the Medical Field except for the SEA’s – so “What exactly are you learning?” is usually a big question we get. All the other students get to dress like doctors and nurses and we have to wear boring “business casual” clothes – who wouldn’t trade a pair of black dress pants for a set of Minnie Mouse scrubs!!. Then there is our “behaviour” – we have been seen running around in pyjamas, matching shirts, matching coloured clothing or other equally kooky get-ups. We seem to celebrate Christmas in the month of July and sometimes it appears as if we are doing a lot more laughing in class than learning. Just last week we got to go to the mall and “observe” strangers – I prefer to think of it as ‘playing spy’ myself, but do you know how cool it is to go and watch how people act when they don’t know you are watching.

By writing this blog, I hope that I will able to share with you all the pride our class has in our SEA0410 Class as a whole – we are an amazing team of 15 women and one super luck guy ( he’s spoiled rotten by all of us) … We have grown over the last three months from a group of strangers, with a career choice in common, to a close knit group of friends and family. We are an unbeatable unit who truly work together and care for each other, helping one another study, correcting each other’s work, and even small little things like just giving a shoulder when one is needed.

We also stand out from most students in the academic world because we love our teacher. Yes, as weird as it sounds, we, the SEA’s, believe we have the best teacher in the world. Everyone in our program loves her, and because of that we work even harder to succeed – she is the one who gives us all these neat and crazy projects to do – how can you not love a teacher like that!!

So stay tuned and log in for all the adventures to come, because trust me, with this crazy class, I can promise you there will be many.