Today is my second day official of work at the school. The students do not come until after the long weekend. All last week I worked on lesson planning on Monday through Wednesday, Thursday I ran errands and then Friday and Saturday I was at the school setting up my classroom and organizing the science lab. Some highlights:
* I was incredibly annoyed with the condition of the lab. I found out the reason why yesterday -- the regular teacher was on maternity leave last year and the lab went to pot. I so far I have spent over ten hours cleaning and organizing the lab. I am hoping I will be done this week.
* There are quite of few teachers here around my age and we hit it off right away. Yesterday while I was cleaning two other teachers visited with me and got nothing done themselves. Our classrooms have to be ready for tonight because we have an orientation night so the other two were scrambling to get ready today.
* There are over 100 thumbtacks in my walls.
* My schedule got completely changed around yesterday. On Friday a teacher informed the administrators that she will not be able to teach this coming year because her breast cancer has come back. She had just found out. Some teachers who were not working full time were given some more classes and our schedules changed. Fortunately, my new classes are in second semester.
* I overslept this morning and made it to work in 22 minutes. The commute usually takes over a half hour (do not ask how fast I was driving). I was only 3 minutes late.
I'm a little annoyed right now. A goodbye party for a friend was last night and I found out about it this morning. The invitation was sent out by email and I still don't have Internet at home. I was able to figure out how to connect my own.
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