Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Get Fit Challenge
Tommorrow I join a team of 3 other ladies in the get fit challenge. Its something our school is doing to raise money for the weight room. Its $20 and lasts 2 months at the end they crown the winners to those who worked out the most hours, lost the most body fat percentage as well as the amount of muscle gained.. Wish me luck.. I am going to work out 2 hours a day, 1 in the am and 1 in the pm :x
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
2009
Everyone keeps blogging about 2009 and I'm going to be a follower and follow them.. 2009 was a rough year,but full of bittersweet moments...
January- Became very happy when I went back home to Vegas after a Cold Christmas and New years in NY. I definatly am not a cold weather gal...
Feburary- Worked my butt off at Desert Oasis High school getting things in order for our Valentines Candy gram sale.. As well as a huge La Fiesta De amor event for the high schoolers before the last basketball game.
March- Really got into coupoing and saving money. Started to become obessed with Walgreens and CVS deals. I also took a Visit to Idaho to visit an old roomate who I hadnt seen in years. It was crazy how we still clicked like we did 5 years ago when we were roomates :)
April- Since I wss the Student Council Advisor I got to take 5 High School students to Sparks Nevada to a leadership confrence. What an amazing experience, so insperational. It had council kids from the entire state of Nevada. On a sad note I started to get some info that I may not have my job next year because of budget cuts. Luckily I get a job offer at another school teaching the same thing.
May- My lovely sister and her friend AJ came out to Vegas. It was nice showing them around and spoiling them by getting them a room on the strip and taking them out to a nice dinner. On a bad note My job at the other school gets a no go beacuse someone who has more years under their belt bumps me out.
June- My mom comes out to visit a few weeks before school is over for the year. The day she arrives I get called into the principals office, he puts a lady on speaker phone and she tells me I have been rifted for the upcoming school year. I now have no job. This was a really hard for me. My mom defintaly came on a good weekend. She looks for new jobs while she is there for me, I call tons of places to see they still have openings. Friends Rick and Collette come to visit while my mom is visiting. We try to make the best out of a hard time. School at Desert Oasis comes to a close, I pack my things and head to Arizona for an interview at a school located in Avondale Arizona. The interview goes great and before leaving they offer me a job. What a blessing...
July- I pack up my stuff in Vegas and pack up a moving truck. I dont say many good byes in vegas because it hurt like pulling a band aid off. I move into my new and much nicer apartment unpack my things and start work a week later.
August- My first days of new students in a new state is exciting and nerve racking. I use to teach rich snobby kids in Vegas. Now I am teaching poor kids who really dont have much.
September- Start becoming crafty and enjoy ready craft blogs. Try creating my own things.
October-Continue to craft it up halloween style host a really nice "enrichment" meeting at church with halloween crafts and foods.
November- Named employee of the month at my new school. Kinda crazy how much they appreciate all the work I do already and we are only in the 3rd month of school. If only my last school realizled that. For thanksgiving I decide to stay in Arizona and shop all day and have Mcdonalds for dinner.
Decemeber-THe month went quick and I soon returned back to NY for Chrismtas with the family. It was very cold and I wasnt really into going out and visiting people. I once again deliverd presents to the poor in ELmira with my fav people. And I also taught them a lil spanish :)
I think that wraps up my 2009. ALready 2010 has been AMAZING!! I will contuine to work harder to update this.
January- Became very happy when I went back home to Vegas after a Cold Christmas and New years in NY. I definatly am not a cold weather gal...
Feburary- Worked my butt off at Desert Oasis High school getting things in order for our Valentines Candy gram sale.. As well as a huge La Fiesta De amor event for the high schoolers before the last basketball game.
March- Really got into coupoing and saving money. Started to become obessed with Walgreens and CVS deals. I also took a Visit to Idaho to visit an old roomate who I hadnt seen in years. It was crazy how we still clicked like we did 5 years ago when we were roomates :)
April- Since I wss the Student Council Advisor I got to take 5 High School students to Sparks Nevada to a leadership confrence. What an amazing experience, so insperational. It had council kids from the entire state of Nevada. On a sad note I started to get some info that I may not have my job next year because of budget cuts. Luckily I get a job offer at another school teaching the same thing.
May- My lovely sister and her friend AJ came out to Vegas. It was nice showing them around and spoiling them by getting them a room on the strip and taking them out to a nice dinner. On a bad note My job at the other school gets a no go beacuse someone who has more years under their belt bumps me out.
June- My mom comes out to visit a few weeks before school is over for the year. The day she arrives I get called into the principals office, he puts a lady on speaker phone and she tells me I have been rifted for the upcoming school year. I now have no job. This was a really hard for me. My mom defintaly came on a good weekend. She looks for new jobs while she is there for me, I call tons of places to see they still have openings. Friends Rick and Collette come to visit while my mom is visiting. We try to make the best out of a hard time. School at Desert Oasis comes to a close, I pack my things and head to Arizona for an interview at a school located in Avondale Arizona. The interview goes great and before leaving they offer me a job. What a blessing...
July- I pack up my stuff in Vegas and pack up a moving truck. I dont say many good byes in vegas because it hurt like pulling a band aid off. I move into my new and much nicer apartment unpack my things and start work a week later.
August- My first days of new students in a new state is exciting and nerve racking. I use to teach rich snobby kids in Vegas. Now I am teaching poor kids who really dont have much.
September- Start becoming crafty and enjoy ready craft blogs. Try creating my own things.
October-Continue to craft it up halloween style host a really nice "enrichment" meeting at church with halloween crafts and foods.
November- Named employee of the month at my new school. Kinda crazy how much they appreciate all the work I do already and we are only in the 3rd month of school. If only my last school realizled that. For thanksgiving I decide to stay in Arizona and shop all day and have Mcdonalds for dinner.
Decemeber-THe month went quick and I soon returned back to NY for Chrismtas with the family. It was very cold and I wasnt really into going out and visiting people. I once again deliverd presents to the poor in ELmira with my fav people. And I also taught them a lil spanish :)
I think that wraps up my 2009. ALready 2010 has been AMAZING!! I will contuine to work harder to update this.
Saturday, January 2, 2010
Finally Home
I made it home from NY, numerous hours later.. It feels so good to be back in your own environment. I got up early this morning and hung my beautiful Pottery Barn shower curtain and towels.. 6 months later and I finally have a shower curtain in my bathroom. I was in search for the perfect one..Pretty sure I found it. I am going to be getting life in order for the first week back to work.. should be a busy one! I hope everyone had a nice holiday! I sure did!
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
blog much?
I haven't blogged in FOREVER!! I am home in NY and it is freezing! Maybe I should work on keeping this a little more updated this year??
Saturday, June 27, 2009
Funny...
The Clark County School District called me on Friday and told me they have a position for me for next year. Too bad I am planned to move to Arizona exactly one week from that day. I would never recommend anyone to work for this district.
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
:)
With all that bad news I wanted to post something good..I did find a job in Arizona and in just 2 weeks I will be moving to a lovely lil area called Avondale, which is just west of Phoenix. I will be teaching at La Joya Community High School, 4 classes of food 1 and one class of foods 2. I am really excited and am looking forward to this new adventure.
A lil about Avondale..
*As of the census[4] of 2000, there were 35,883 people.
*The racial makeup of the city was 63.27% White, 5.20% Black or African American, 1.28% Native American, 1.89% Asian, 0.14% Pacific Islander, 24.32% from other races, and 3.89% from two or more races. 46.23% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.
*The median age was 29 years.
*For every 100 females there were 102.4 males ;)
Well back to packing I go..
A lil about Avondale..
*As of the census[4] of 2000, there were 35,883 people.
*The racial makeup of the city was 63.27% White, 5.20% Black or African American, 1.28% Native American, 1.89% Asian, 0.14% Pacific Islander, 24.32% from other races, and 3.89% from two or more races. 46.23% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.
*The median age was 29 years.
*For every 100 females there were 102.4 males ;)
Well back to packing I go..
Sunday, June 14, 2009
Then...
So I was happy my spirits were back up. I had a job for the upcoming school year, I was more positive at school and was truly looking forward to moving to this school that was closer to my house. The rest of the year was flying by. I couldn't believe how fast things were going. My sister and her friend AJ came out to visit June 15ish and stayed for a week, it was fun having them here. Then I took my sister and Aj to the airport on Saturday and my mom flew out on that Tuesday.
That Tuesday I was excited that my mom was going to be here for a week to hang out. After school on Tuesday 4 hours before my mom arrived my name was called over the intercom to come to the main office at school. I wasn't sure what they needed me for, thinking maybe someone sent me flowers or a parent was here to talk about there child. The main office lady didn't call me, so I went to the principals secretary and she wasn't there so I peeked my head into the principals office, and he was on the phone when he said, Oh she just walked in. He said take a seat and then put the lady he was speaking to on speaker phone. She introduced herself she was from the HR office and I don't remember all she said except, "I'm sorry to inform you Ms. Tracy, but I wanted to tell you personally before getting the letter in the mail, You have been (and I don't know the exactly what she said) Rifted for the 09-10 school year, you will be put on two years of leave, and blah, blah, blah." I couldn't believe it, I had just gotten the job over at Durango, and now they are saying that I have too little seniority to keep the job. Tears streamed down my face, I was trying to stay strong in front of the principal, and my dean as she soon walked in after finding out the bad news. I didn't know what to say, I couldn't believe my mom was coming to visit this very day and I was going to have to tell her that I no longer had a job for the next year. I left his office mad and upset, and unsure what I was going to do. I went home and laid in bed wondering why all of this was happening to me. I felt very blessed to have graduated from college moved miles and miles away from my family to start a new job, a job at a brand new school. And now this was happening. I didn't know what to think.
As I drove to the airport to pick up my mom I thought to myself, I just wont tell her what happened today. I don't want this to put a damper on here being her or our plans. I sat in the parking lot, and called her phone and her cheery voice automatically said, "Hows your day been?" and even though I wanted to say Great mom! The words that came out of my voice were not very good. She said why? and I said its really not good, then I said I don't have a job for next year. She couldn't believe it, I had just found out that I had a job at Durango and now they told me I didn't, she was upset. I went inside and she put her arms around me and I knew with no doubt in my mind that everything was going to be okay.
That Tuesday I was excited that my mom was going to be here for a week to hang out. After school on Tuesday 4 hours before my mom arrived my name was called over the intercom to come to the main office at school. I wasn't sure what they needed me for, thinking maybe someone sent me flowers or a parent was here to talk about there child. The main office lady didn't call me, so I went to the principals secretary and she wasn't there so I peeked my head into the principals office, and he was on the phone when he said, Oh she just walked in. He said take a seat and then put the lady he was speaking to on speaker phone. She introduced herself she was from the HR office and I don't remember all she said except, "I'm sorry to inform you Ms. Tracy, but I wanted to tell you personally before getting the letter in the mail, You have been (and I don't know the exactly what she said) Rifted for the 09-10 school year, you will be put on two years of leave, and blah, blah, blah." I couldn't believe it, I had just gotten the job over at Durango, and now they are saying that I have too little seniority to keep the job. Tears streamed down my face, I was trying to stay strong in front of the principal, and my dean as she soon walked in after finding out the bad news. I didn't know what to say, I couldn't believe my mom was coming to visit this very day and I was going to have to tell her that I no longer had a job for the next year. I left his office mad and upset, and unsure what I was going to do. I went home and laid in bed wondering why all of this was happening to me. I felt very blessed to have graduated from college moved miles and miles away from my family to start a new job, a job at a brand new school. And now this was happening. I didn't know what to think.
As I drove to the airport to pick up my mom I thought to myself, I just wont tell her what happened today. I don't want this to put a damper on here being her or our plans. I sat in the parking lot, and called her phone and her cheery voice automatically said, "Hows your day been?" and even though I wanted to say Great mom! The words that came out of my voice were not very good. She said why? and I said its really not good, then I said I don't have a job for next year. She couldn't believe it, I had just found out that I had a job at Durango and now they told me I didn't, she was upset. I went inside and she put her arms around me and I knew with no doubt in my mind that everything was going to be okay.
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