My First Day in the Building

Well, the first day is over. It was a day full of signups and paperwork and pep talks. We heard presentations from Credit Unions, Insurance People, Teachers' Union Reps, and so forth and so on. To be honest, after the first 5 hours, most of it was a blur. However, breakfast and lunch were free (amazing how generous some organizations are when they want you to sign up for stuff) and MOST IMPORTANTLY, I was being paid to be a teacher!

That only took 40 years!

After a year and a half of sitting in classrooms, student teaching, lectures, papers, presentations, evaluations and a million other things, it is very hard to overestimate the beautiful feeling of GETTING PAID!

I also signed my final contract and got my room keys. Yes, I have my own keys to my own classroom. How cool is that! We have all new computers in the Tech Lab and they look great, but don't appear to be hooked up yet.

I also met some new people, as you might expect. One of the new teachers at the High School, Nancy, I know from years and years ago in my Case Management days with Weld County. She is a very nice and very sharp person, now teaching Spanish. Cool!

After school, I headed over to CSU and the Education Building. I wanted to print some stuff, if the Computer Lab was open. It wasn't. I went down to the Project Promise Room, where I spent many of those hours preparing to be a teacher. There were new flags on the ceiling, new names on the board, new quilt squares on the wall. I was amused to see that the signup for "People Bags" is in full swing. It is so strange to think that last year, that was me.

And now I have My Room.

Wow.