and it begins!

so today was the first day of the 2011-2012 school year!
as some of you might have been aware, i did not have a job all summer. when it came time to get a placement in august it was absolute chaos!! i got placed at one school where i would have taught grades 9-12 social studies. that lasted about 24 hours, and went back to middle school english where i was placed at a magnet middle school for all of an HOUR, then switched to a different high school where i would have taught juniors and seniors english, then switched within the same school to the social studies department.
my final position is ninth grade american history, tenth grade world history, and ninth grade study skills teacher. whew.
all ican say is that it was an interesting week, full of ups and downs.

anyways.. this school is going to be MUCH different than my old school. for starters i have about 150 kids, as opposed to 19 last year (just saying this makes me laugh haha). tomorrow i will also teach ALL day, except for my 30 min lunch, which is a change from last year. i had a plan period every day last year (aka an hour of no teaching every day).

i also signed up to help coach volleyball today, so that will start tomorrow. we'll see how that goes!

all in all, not a bad day. i was sad though that i couldn't see any of my kids... iwas jealous of all the teachers who knew students and had students excited to see them! i have been thinking about them all day!!