School is in full swing for Jeff, and I've spent all this week at school trying to get my classroom ready. Emphasis on trying. But more on that in a minute.
This semester Jeff is taking Trig and Physics, therefore is spending a lot of time doing homework. Which kind of stinks, because then I get to spend my nights sitting quietly as he works away. But I do appreciate his hard work and dedication, so I won't complain. (Funny thing is...on his first day of school I commented that I felt like I wasn't ever going to see him, and then 2 nights later I got into my classroom and have been working late almost every day since :S)
As for my classroom, I'll post pictures when it gets put together. Yes, school starts in 5 days. And yes, there is a weekend...a long weekend...thrown in there. But it's not my fault. I've done absolutely everything that I can. You see, it's kind of hard to put your classroom together when several of the things on the "Before School Checklist" require having desks in the classroom and your desks are somewhere between here and Timbuktu. No one, not even the lady in charge of furniture for the school, knows exactly where they are. You see, to save money (because there are more important things like textbooks that we prefer to spend large amounts of money on--kids can learn with old desks, but they need textbooks and workbooks), we get desks from schools that are being closed all over the country and then have to wait for them to be brought here and cleaned. Mine haven't arrived yet. When I walked down to the breakroom to eat my lunch today, there was a large pile of desks in the foyer and I got really excited. I shouldn't have though. Because it just led to frustration and tears when I walked back into my classroom after a meeting to find that they weren't in there. There are only 2 more work days before the start of school. And I've all but given up on the fact that I won't have desks in my room. Which will mean a really late night getting them put together when they do get here and a class that will be harder to control and much harder to teach because they will be sitting on the floor rather than in desks.
But, on the bright side, wouldn't it be a great story to tell how my first year teaching I didn't have desks to start the school year?
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