I have successfully made it through my very first week of teaching on my own in middle school!!!!

I love Canyon Ridge Middle School! The students there are great. The other teachers, overall, are even better. I absolutely love my co-workers. They are absolutely, posititutely the most supportive and friendly bunch I have ever met! I feel so blessed and lucky every single day I am there that I stumbled across this job.

The only really bad day was Friday; it all started when my car battery was dead in the morning when I wanted to head out a little early. Fortunately, Jared was still home and our cars live next to each other, so he jump started mine and I made it to school in okay time. Then…. Language Arts classes had to take the students down to get pictures, so I had to go through that drama 3 times and my last class acted like a bunch of monkeys. My head started to really really hurt, and I had to tell them off when we all got back to class. Fortunately, they listened well after that. Each time we did photos though, it took a good 45 minutes out of class, so that was frustrating too. It’s better to over plan than to under plan, though.

Yesterday was the best though. Friday night I crashed about 9:30 and slept until 8:30-9:00 the next morning. I must have really needed my sleep to crash like that. After getting ready for the day and just hanging out and relaxing with Jared, we went out to lunch to one of our favorite places, Texadelphia, which has to have the best cheese beefsteak sandwiches ever. Then Jared surprised me and took me to the nearest Apple store and we used my teacher id to get me a new macbook!!!! We got a really good deal–We got the macbook, $100 off, iPod touch for free, and a printer for free.

It was a really big purchase, but I am really excited. My laptop has been a good, sturdy lappy for 5 years, but it’s getting old. Jared’s laptop is even more decrepid than mine, so it’s nice to have a reliable computer. 🙂 Especially because I’ve wanted a macbook for ages! 🙂 My husband is the best.

So, as you all can probably tell, it’s been a good week. I am really excited for this school year, and I think as long as I can get my headaches under control, everything will be really good!