First day jitters!
The good news: everyone is great. There are a LOT of like minded people on campus. For those that have taken the True Color Test, us "Oranges" have the majority by almost half. Which means we are a bunch of movers and shakers, risk takers and spontanious, perhaps to a fault. (I highly recommend the test for a quick look at your personality type, it helps in the work place and potentially in any relationship where youa re attempting to communicate and get things accomplished. Read my type and you'll see the resemblances immediately.)
Now for the not so good news....
My classroom is.. empty. And no i don't mean that in the clean wallk and no graffiti kind of way. I mean no tables, or chairs, or desks, or maps, or those cool overhead screens that roll down, or books or anything. A completely blank slate. Imagine teh way a new house looks before you move in but add a pink bookshelf, a bathroom sink, and blinds with pink trim. (i'm not exxagerating)
Well as I do I quickly made friends with the girl who gets things done. (she used to work with grizzleys in Alaska and yes she knew teh Grizley Man.) Together (armed with the principal's key (ause I still don't have one) we traveled to the highschool's side of campus and proceeded to raid thier storage closet, all the while chanting my new mantra "it is asier to beg forgivness thant o ask permission." Well I guess the principal became a little worried about what sort of mischief I would get up to when he saw teh two of us (in dress clothes no less) pushing a 10-foot-long cart with 2 tables and 8 desks across campus, because before I left today teh janitor had stocked my room with 20 more desks and a teacher's desk (complete with drawers). yay for getting things done! I got a few freebees from so otehr teaches as well, including a (as in singular) student textbook.
I am really excited and mostly over the jitters, at least for this week. As far as next week goes I'm hoping to steal as much as i can (information this time) from the other teacher at my grade level and just hope I can get through the first day.
I got home tonight, loded up the vehicle with boxes of supplies (the ones I kept from the donations last year) and tomorrow I'm sporting jeans and flip-flops so that I can climb on desks properly and start the process of making my room look, well like an actual classroom. For those local enough to help, I'll take any man hours you want to donate. Maybe I'll even find chairs tomorrow for you to rest in.
As for me: I'm off to sleep. It's going to be a long week, the first of many i'm sure.
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