Blissful!

So today was the last blissful day of school. Everything went great and the students were really well behaved. I just thank God that I had a good school year even after all of the complaining that I do!

It just doesn't seem real that I just ended my 6th year of teaching. It seems like only yesterday that I just began. I will be entering my 7th year of teaching on August 11. Yup that is when we start school again. But now is not the time to think about that, but to think about how late do I really want to sleep in!

Hey I think I got my foot in the door....

I came home from school today just totally exhausted and I still have award certificates to start and finish tonight. Blah! But I looked at the mail sitting on the dining room table and image my suprise when there was one from the South Bend Community School Corp. The only thing I thought of was that they have no positions for me and please try again next year. Because this is the way my world is going at the moment. I also have not received a phone call from St. Matt's...grrrrr it's been three weeks!

Anyway back to the letter, imagine my suprise when it tells me that they chose me for the job of helper for summer school. This is something I applied for back on a whim because I thought there was no chance in heck they would go for me because I am not a SBCSC employee. So I have to send a fax telling I accept the position and then I have to fill out paperwork by the end of next week. Then the position starts with training on June 27 and then summer school starts up July 7th.

So if all goes well maybe I can start building network connections and somehow figure out how to get into the dang school system. Even though people tell me I am crazy for wanting a public school job. I guess I have to experience it first hand and go from there.

And I thought my summer would be boring!

This sums up my day

I feel like a monkey who has been swinging all over the place lately. This is the final week of school and I have so much running through my mind, it is a wonder that I can even sleep. Plus on top of closing down my end of the year stuff, my modem died last night and I have been unable to connect to the Internet.

The Internet this week is my friend because I am furiously trying to upload pics to Walgreens so I can get them to school, making photo collages for the students to place in their end of the year booklets, and trying to finish our School Improvement Plan.

So this was not the best week for it to go out. I called ATT and they told me my warrarety had expired two years ago and I have to call another number (their ATT store) to find out how much a new modem was and there was the possibilty that a local store had the modem. So I frantically called the place and low and behold Best Buy carried them.

So I rush out to Best Buy and viola here I am at 10 o'clock at night finishing report card comments, three pages for the pic collage, and blogging. I'm sure my time is better spent elsewhere, but I needed a mental break.

Well I think I am finally satisfied with the pic collage, now I just need to save and print it out at school. Because there is no way I am printing 13 copies times 3. I'm not that rich to afford that much colored ink. Plus anyway the ink dries up at school if we leave it sit for two months. So I am doing the responsible thing! I just need to get to school early in the morning, so nobody finds out! :D

Old to Gold!

I have been anticipating the Old to Gold sale at Notre Dame since the beginning of May. Basically this is a garage sale held at ND stadium of all the things left behind or donated by the students at the end of the year. The proceeds then go to local charities. It is a win-win situation! I think this is the third year that the sale has happened. Believe me there are some great deals if you can get them.

The sale starts at 7 AM and goes until 11 AM. However if you want to be one of the early birds you have to pay $5 to get in between 7 and 9. The past two years I have gone it has always been around 8:00. This year I was determined to get there earlier than normal. What a mistake that was! The line wrapped all the way around the football stadium! It was almost beginning to loop around to the front of the builiding again. So I was in line before 7, I just didn't get into the stadium until 7:30.

I made a beeline to the books. This is the main reason why I am crazy enough to do this sort of thing. I find the books that the students left behind and then try to sell them on Amazon. The first year I made about $150, last year was a crappy year and I don't even think I broke one hundred.

I did my best to sort through what was there as fast as I could because this other guy had the same intentions that I did. However he had one of those carts that you get at Sam's Club that you can stack many things upon. He had at least 5 piles already on his cart. I walked away with 12 books costing me a total of $6.50. What a bargain!

So after coming home after work today and uploading the books, I have found that I made really wise choices this year! If I can sell all of the books for the prices that I listed them for I can stand to make around $250. Not bad for $6.50 worth of books and an hour worth of my time!

Chuckle

While reviewing for our Unit 5 Religion test today, one of my students made the comment, "I know what the devil's name is." I asked him what it was and he told me, "Ludacris". I had to chuckle silently and told him that it was Lucifer, but he had a good guess. Plus I have no idea why he was thinking about the devil when we were talking about Mary and her Assumption into heaven. Kids...gotta love 'em!