Much needed update!

Wow its been forever since I blogged last.. Life has been soo busy! Tonight was the last football game that I had to work! It was a bittersweet moment. I had a blast doing it, I meet a ton of people and feel I developed some great friendships with others.

My classes are going very well. I think I finally have things organized, sad to say 2 months into teaching! My classes are set so that one day we have a lecture and then the next day we do a lab. I love it because I don't have to make up a ton of lessons, the only down fall is that I have to go grocery shopping all the time.. Its getting better though. The kids love cooking all the time. If only I could get them to love hearing my voice while I am lecturing :).

My friend Adrienne who teaches science and then Brooke who also teaches science well the three of us have started the "spirit club" for our school. When I was in school these people were called the rowdy raiders, pretty much they go to all the games and cheer on all the different teams! So much fun! Well the kids in our group have decided to call us the Rowdy Rattlers, since our mascot is a diamondback! We are not currently designing a shirt so that we can all wear the same thing on game days!

My next adventure that I have gotten myself into would be a program called RSVP which means Raising Students Voice and Participation, pretty much you get amazing kids to lead discussions with all of the students in the school about things they want to see change in the schools, you have these discussions then you work with the administrators to make the changes take action. Its a cool thing, and the kids that are on the committee are AMAZING! I seriously have not seen kids so amazing!!


Then I saved the best for last! I have taken on the position of being the Student Council adviser. Now if you don't know what this means , it pretty much means I look over the 31 students who run the school. We plan everything from pep assemblies to prom! They are the school spirit of the whole school. Its an amazing Job! But is a very busy job, with things always coming up! Now this position was filled by someone else but the administrators weren't liking the way things were being run. So they took him out on Friday and put me in charge on Monday! I know its crazy, I was so unsure of the transition. But honestly things are running very smoothly. I sold my prep period and I also get paid for being an advisor, so that is a good $1000 dollars a month added to my pay, not too bad for a white girl from ny. haha.. I seriously love the kids and they are really taking a liking to me. I was unsure how they were going to handle the change but I don't think its going to be hard at all, the principal actually came and talked to them told them what had happened and just reassured them that I was a great teacher and that he had no fear that I was going to do an amazing job helping them run the school. He spoke so highly of me it made me feel really good about the whole thing. I got tons of hugs and high fives from them today. which is usually a good sign. We had our first pep rally during both lunches today and it was a huge success. The dean of activities told them that they had done a great job, they were so excited because they have never been congratulated on anything they have done in the past. you could tell they felt really good about getting such a great compliment. I think that it is a great beginning to a great start. I already love them all and I barely know a lot of them.

Ok so I know this is a very long post but I have been neglecting some of my faithful readers :) and I wanted to make sure I got everyone caught up. I am super excited for the month of November! My mom is coming the beginning of the month then my sister and grandparents and aunt are coming around thanksgiving. I have been looking for tickets for shows while they are out here. I am hoping to spoil them as much as I possibly can. Maybe the spoiling will make my other readers want to come visit. hehe

I love you all and miss you! I am working on getting a ticket for xmas! but make sure you know I will be shinning my sunny face in that cold weather around that time.