Here we go...again....

Well, once again, it's official. I'm hired. You're probably a bit confused at this point because I haven't said anything to anyone. Here's the scoop. I applied quite a while ago for a school called Charter School of San Diego. I really just applied for the fun of it and lo and behold, they called. I interviewed two Thursday's ago and really hit it off with my interviewer named Tiffany. They called that afternoon and invited me back for round two. Here's the funny part. I went back the next day to be interviewed by a panel of three "administrators." By about three minutes into it, I was confident--confident that they would not be offering me a job. In my opinion, I felt like it was the worst interview of my life. They told me I would hear either way in a week but I knew it was a no. So they did call one week later (last Thursday) and offered me a job. I had to try my best not to laugh because I absolutely could not believe it. I accepted the offer today and I find out more specifics on Wednesday.

Here's what I can tell you about the school: It is a charter; however, don't be fooled; it's nothing like where I was before. They operate out of store fronts around the town and the kids are in grades 7-12. It is a free, public school and kids can go there because they are out of town a lot, need to make up credits, etc. I will have a case load of 40 kids that I schedule to come in 2-3 times per week but I never have more than 20 kids at a time. When they come in, I don't just collect their work but I do lessons (all subjects) as well. Apparently there is a lot of paperwork though so that the school is in line with regulations. What else? Oh, this is the not too fab part. My schedule is Tuesday through Saturday, 11-7pm. The good part is that I technically don't have to schedule any kids on Saturday so I could just get my paperwork done instead. I still get Thanksgiving break, Christmas and Easter but the summer vacation part is gone. In a sense, it might be good. First, I usually get bored during summer and second, I get paid more since I'm working. Oh, another good thing is that the location where I was placed is just 10 minutes from where we are.

So, that's the big news for now. I didn't say anything to anyone because I really didn't think I was going to get it but surprise..jokes on me. :) I'll write more when I know more.

Snails

So last night Sam and I walked up the street to our polling place and as we were going up some stairs to cut over to the grocery store, we saw some snails. The thing was, these snails had sea shells for their homes! Neither one of us had ever seen this before so we were pretty amazed.

Nothing much new here. Sam's working his tail off trying to get the hang of things at AT & T and I'm still subbing. I added another district today. It's called Poway and according to my previous principal, Clovis aspires to be like Poway. It'll be interesting to get into some of their classrooms and see what it's all about.

Yesterday I was at a really neat school and I had 5th graders. The highlight of the day was teaching the kids about the excretory system (the one that allows you to go to the bathroom...). We had a lot of fun talking about "number one and number two" and I got to listen to multiple stories about animals at the zoo doing one or both of those. Good times!

Ooh, forgot to mention....we sold the Honda! Some guy bought it for his daughter who lives in Reno but we just care that it's sold! Yea!