I have found my way back to the computer?
I feel like I have been in the big city and got stuck on the HOV lane and zoomed right past my destination and had no way of getting back to it.
Welcome to the first few weeks of a new school year. Yes the insanity has started I am in the drivers seat for a new school year. As you might guess, I became preoccupied with preparing for the year around the time of my last blog entry. (August 11 I think.) At that time I began going to school and preparing the classroom and getting things together. In elementary school this can take a while.
Teachers contract start date is one week prior to the first day of school for students. But when there are mandatory meetings, trainings, and open house, there is precious little time left to work in your room. y the time you are at the first day you quickly find out that you will have a "First Day" for the next 5-10 school days. This is because all of your students do not come on the first day. They will straggle in and then when it appears that you have them all, the district begins to send transfers to our campus. Our campus often receives transfers from campuses that have too large of an enrollment. Because of this the teachers often have to rearrange and change because their numbers increase.
Add to all of this the two weeks of Olympic coverage and then two weeks of political conventions and the start of the football season; and quite frankly, I was pooped.
Speaking of the Olympics and the conventions, "How about the great performance by Micheal Phelps and the great speech by Sarah Palin?" Awesome job by both!
But now I'm back with a vengeance. Maybe not actual vengeance, but I'm back and it's great.
© 2008 Barry T Horst
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