before there were lid kids

I believe I have officially contracted my first cold of the 2005-2006 school year. It’s pretty much a fact of life, when you spend 6 hours a day with 30 teenagers. They put their germs everywhere. Bleh. I’m fighting it off pretty hard with DayQuil, NyQuil, and Vitamin C. I have a big week coming […]

My weekend. Sucked. Ok, it wasn’t terrible. But, it wasn’t a break from much of anything. I spent ALL saturday grading papers. Papers that I’ve put off. Papers that I just got. 10 class sets of stuff: Algebra II Chapter 3 Tests Algebra II Linear Programming Assignment Algebra 1a classwork (2 classes, 3 different assignments). […]

News from the weekend: On Friday night, I attended a Forbush football game (with my faithful companion, Lucy). They lost 9-0 to North Iredell. I met a 9 year old N. Iredell fan named Jonathan who kept us company for most of the evening. I also learned quite a bit about young Jonathan. He might […]

I had almost forgotten just how much I hate to grade papers. That is, until tonight. I gave my first test in Algebra II today. The average grade was 77. That is quite below what I had expected. But, hopefully, this will shock the kids out of whatever summer vacation they are still coasting on, […]

For those of you that don’t know, Derek and I have been exploring other church possibilities. We weren’t really feeling like Calvary was the place for us, and began looking elsewhere at the start of the summer. We only tried a couple of places before being invited to Salem Chapel. It is only a year […]

So, as you may already be aware, I have started taking classes to finish my teaching certification at WSSU. I am also back at work, slaving hard to teach the young’ns some math. Well, on Mondays and Wednesdays, I get to school at 7:00. Patrol the parking lot from 7:30-7:55. Teach three straight periods (7:55 […]

Well, the first two days were cool. I was absolutely exhausted. Nothing can prepare you for 4.5 hours of standing in front of a bunch of Fresh-Outta-Summer teenagers. But, it looks like I have a decent group of kids. I can already see a few that are destined to retake my class, but I’ll do […]

We start back today. It’s 6:20 am. I’ll be at the school in a little under an hour. And the madness will begin. I had dreams about it last night. It didn’t go that well. Hopefully I fare better today than I did in my dreams. I also have a whopping headache. I think it’s […]

I start classes today at WSSU. Good times. I take modern algebra and methods of teaching math and I AM DONE. I will be an official, real, live, CERTIFIED teacher. In December. In other news, we have an open house today. Lots to do, lots to do. Here we go…

Well, that’s it. It’s over. Tomorrow, I go back to school and the summer is officially over. Here are my feelings on that: I feel like I didn’t really get a breather. A recharge (as our principal puts it.) I took classes and went to camps. I had a move, which is my fault, admittedly. […]