draining small battles.

school was fine today, just so much more draining than miller.  today i had to send antonio out because he wasn't giving me his cell phone.  he told me he was in a bad mood because someone stole his phone and was threatening to kill his familiy.  he said he was fine, and didn't want to go to the office.  it was actually a good experience.  small battle won.  

the kids and cute grandma & grandpa

prints cleared last night, so today was my first paid word day.  things went well today.  did an interview intro activity and learned A LOT.  these kids have so many goals and dreams....almost every single one has their sights set on college.  they are so proud of their heritage and family, especially their mothers.  another thing i noticed was that a lot of their summer plans involved reno.  weird.  who ever thought of reno would be a destination in itself?  it was cute, one of myboys said he wanted to take cooking because girls liked men who could cook.  another said he took cooking so he'd be able to cook for all his ladies.  hahaha.

i went to visit grandma tonight.  she was upset when i got there.  she was so worried she isn't going to get the pain medication she needed, and she gets so hostile.  once she got her meds, she seemed way more at peace when i left.  it was sweet--she was telling me how grandpa came to see her and how he sat with her and held her hand and talked to her about elder bednar's talk from conference about enduring to the end, and how he just sat next to her and held her hand and gave her a blessing.  she was all teary eyes and just said, "...that sweet don..."  it was really cute.  gotta get to bed.  

first day of school.

i survived the first day.  it went pretty smoothly.  its weird only have 3 periods.  we did all our management stuff and then we did bio poems.  it was funny, i had 2 boys and one's said, "who is cooler than a fan," and the other said "who is flyer than an insect."  i laughed.  i am exhausted.  my fingerprints still haven't cleared, so basically i'm working for free.  bummer.  

teacher work day

tomorrow is the first day of school at tennyson.  i was really excited when i first got the job, then when i got here, got to the school and talked to maryann i  started getting really nervous.  she told me about fights and how teachers cars get stolen right out of the lot.  yikes.  i get really nercous and thren once i start planning and really visualizing everything it doesn't seem so scary.  i have 3, 90 minute periods every day of "culinary skills."  right now my 1st period has 24 kids (dream size) and then 2nd has 26 (yikes) and 3rd has 37 (yikes, again).  i hope they get my class size down soon.  we won't be cooking for awhile and the tables are small for that many kids.  i gotten all my worksheets done for the safety/sanitation plans, but its hard to tell how long its all going to take on the block schedule.  then i just need to figure out the time allotments for the labs and nutrients and then i'll be all set.