The moving of the cheese...

Ever read that book "Who Moved My Cheese?" One year a really great principal required all the staff to read it. Good stuff, really. :)

Well, my cheese has been shifting a few inches on a near weekly basis for about a year. But today it was thrown down the street. LOL

I found out in a meeting today that I will be leaving my current school at the end of the year and will be teaching ESOL at a nearby elementary school next year. I'm excited and scared shitless at the same time. :) An adventure? Yep! Crazy, turn my world upside down change? Yep! Everything happens for a reason? Yep- I'm going with that. ;)

On a side note, my roommate at work REALLY got the shaft. She'll be leaving our "comfy" room to spend her day half-sies between two schools, while another teacher will be coming in taking over our full time gig. I know it's all about test scores, etc- I get it. But MAN am I glad I'm not her!

Are you?

I've been asked twice recently if I hold elementary certification. Um, yes- why do you ask?

It seems that there has been a prediction of the ESOL numbers going down at my school, and up elsewhere- at an elementary school, presumably. I'd expressed interest in transferring in the past, and now they're holding me to it. While in theory, that is A-OK with me, change is hard, KWIM?

I got an email today (from the ESOL Dept head at the county office) saying that I need to change my teaching certificate to my married name (OOPS!). If they're checking into that, well, it seems maybe this might happen.

I'm not sure how I feel about this- excited, pissed, anxious? Either which way, I sure wish they could just tell me ASAP!!!

Thankful: Day 7

I am thankful for my job. In more ways that one, actually. 1. I'm thankful that I *HAVE* a job, and that it's not in danger of disappearing any time soon. 2. I am thankful for the students I work with. I love them. They certainly frustrate me on occassion (more often than usualy, lately, to tell you the truth), but they make me smile every day.