Well now, its been a long long time since I bothered to post anything here, which I find interesting and perplexing. Lots has happened since Thursday June 16th (which I believe was the last day of school for my students), and yet nothing. I've thought about putting lots of things here, inane commentary about my everyday life, and yet I haven't. So its time.
Today is Sunday September 4th, which presents a totally different perspective than that of staring down a summer of classes and travel and possibility. Where to start is always the question in circumstances such as these.
Well lets see... The flow of my summer has been as follows:
After my students left for the summer (goodbye guys! I hope that high school will treat all of you well) I then went back to class for another 6 weeks of "Experience and Meaning" which turned out to be a great class not because of the curriculum (it was rather boring and useless) but because my teacher Mika Yeigh really listened to her students and made it what we wanted.
As the summer moseyed along its sweet days I was also sending off tons of resumes, cover letters, copies of my transcripts to many a school district. The last two weeks of class I got an interview, a second interview, and a job offer in the Lake Oswego School District (more on that later).
Immediately after finishing classes I then departed for Costa Rica with Dr. Kip Ault and many other nerdy folks to complete my last two credits of my degree. It was a spectacular trip and the people, the scenery, the volcanoes, the wildlife was amazing. I loved it there and can't wait to go back. More on that in another post perhaps.
After returning home I mostly collapsed in a little heap for a short while, but life does go on. I then started hunting up a new abode being as my present living quarters are both small and... well I'm just darned tired of them. So I made an offer on a little house in Sellwood (its tiny, I'm SOOO excited) that closes on the 15th of September.
And now its time to go back to school! Waluga Jr. High in Lake Oswego has me running quite the gauntlet this first trimester of teaching I will ever do for real (I mean, student teaching was real, but it wasn't like this!). I will be teaching a 6 period day in which I teach one period each of 7th grade health, 8th grade health, robotics, web design and two periods of 7th grade science! And the hormonal young souls will be in my classroom in less than 48 hours.
Meanwhile my apartment looks like a pile of boxes because I'm preparing to move in just two weeks and tried my best to get most things packed before the students really eat up all of my mental faculties and energy. So thats the outline!