So, I love my job. We've been in school for an entire month now, and we still don't have any textbooks for 2nd grade, nor a single math textbook for K-5. Since I last blogged we have fired our financial bookkeeper, a secretary, and just yesterday we fired a special ed teacher. Apparently, we're not playing around! If we don't get more 7th graders enrolled, we might have to start letting middle school teachers go. The thought has crossed my mind that they might need to let the middle school CRT (me!) go as well.
Our principal, Vanessa, kind of rules with fear. I don't know if that's her intention, but I can tell you that all staff members are intimated by her. Which, on the one hand is AWESOME because people actually respect her, and it is clearly established that what she says goes. Compared to my former principal who had no spine, no one respected him, and no one felt supported by him, this woman is a welcomed change. She is Hispanic and at times the ghetto in her comes out, which makes me smile, and feel like I'm home =)
I am being sent to Florida Wednesday night for Curriculum Cadre. Just me - I'm going alone. All the schools who are a part of Charter Schools USA are sending 1-3 people but since I have to fly there, we only get to send one. I'm excited about the opportunity though!
Then, a week from today we get an entire week off of school. Cherokee County has this amazing calendar that gives everyone a week off in September, November, February, and April, in addition to the two weeks off for Christmas. I will be volunteering at Papa's that week Monday-Wednesday (they still haven't found anyone to replace me!), and then Ryan will be getting his wisdom teeth removed on Thursday so I will play nurse Traeger for the rest of the week.
I joined a tennis team! It's basically all the wives/girlfriends of the Ryan's crew. Today is our first match? game? meet? Whatever... QUESTIONS:
"Ryan, who was your last girlfriend prior to Courtney?" "Heather Froy"
"Courtney, who is your tennis partner for the match this weekend?" "Heather Froy"
So that's a little strange and uncomfortable but oh well. Tis better to make friends than enemies =)
That's all for now...
Look who's Pregnant!!!
Showing posts with label tennis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tennis. Show all posts
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Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Tuesday
I got the opportunity to tutor Ginnie Lee this morning. She is back in town for this week only, before her tour starts next week.
After tutoring I stopped at a Halloween store in Roswell to do some preliminary exploring. Ryan and I are invited to a costume party this coming Friday night. The party has a pirate theme, so Ryan wanted to be pirates. I looked at pirate costumes and some other costumes. I want to be Dog the Bounty Hunter and Beth, but can't convince Ryan of that. I found a bee costume I really liked, and a pirate costume I only kind of liked. I had them both put on hold until the store closed that night. Ryan has friends that are going as the Situation and Snooki, and another couple who are going as Tiger Woods and Elin. Clearly, you do not have to be a pirate to attend the party. Once Ryan understood that, we went to a costume store and he got something totally different. Which means I was off the hook of being a pirate, and could go get my bumble bee outfit. So at 8:00 at night I drive all the way back to Roswell and they didn't have my costume on hold!!! It was the only one in my size... all the rest were extra smalls so those didn't work. I tried on a few more outfits, but I didn't like any of them either. So now I'm back to the drawing board!
Today I also received a new tutoring client from a new company.. The company is called Club Z Tutoring and I will be tutoring an 8th grade girl named Lindsey in math.
It rained all day here in GA, so tennis was canceled for tonight. BOO.
After tutoring I stopped at a Halloween store in Roswell to do some preliminary exploring. Ryan and I are invited to a costume party this coming Friday night. The party has a pirate theme, so Ryan wanted to be pirates. I looked at pirate costumes and some other costumes. I want to be Dog the Bounty Hunter and Beth, but can't convince Ryan of that. I found a bee costume I really liked, and a pirate costume I only kind of liked. I had them both put on hold until the store closed that night. Ryan has friends that are going as the Situation and Snooki, and another couple who are going as Tiger Woods and Elin. Clearly, you do not have to be a pirate to attend the party. Once Ryan understood that, we went to a costume store and he got something totally different. Which means I was off the hook of being a pirate, and could go get my bumble bee outfit. So at 8:00 at night I drive all the way back to Roswell and they didn't have my costume on hold!!! It was the only one in my size... all the rest were extra smalls so those didn't work. I tried on a few more outfits, but I didn't like any of them either. So now I'm back to the drawing board!
Today I also received a new tutoring client from a new company.. The company is called Club Z Tutoring and I will be tutoring an 8th grade girl named Lindsey in math.
It rained all day here in GA, so tennis was canceled for tonight. BOO.
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Tennis
So I had my first tennis lesson tonight from 6:30-7:30pm in Kennesaw with their Parks and Rec program. The class is one night a week for 4 weeks. There was only me, and this kid named Cameron, in the class. Cameron is 16 and, for all of you JYMS folks, he reminds me of Travis Mesaros: over weight, light skinned, hair verging on an afro, and all smiles but won't say a word.
I used to take tennis lessons for a couple summers when I was around 8 or so. It was a good thing, too, since we didn't go over any basics like the proper way to hold a racket, scoring, or rules, etc. I do miss the dumb dumb suckers you could win for picking up the most balls on the court, though.
The coach was a guy named Joe, with a thick accent hailing from the Czech Republic. His daughter Natalie also accompanied him. She is 10 years old and has been playing since she was 5. She was a little superstar! Apparently Joe and Natalie are not the regular coaches of this class; they were filling in for Mark, who is with his girlfriend in the hospital.
My backhand was smoking! My forehand needs more practice. My serves, which are wimpy and meager, always land in-bounds. Joe was so impressed he asked me to be on a women's tennis team that practices on Monday nights but has matches on Thursday nights. I told Joe I square dance on Thursday nights (even though I haven't been in two weeks)! Then he suggested I play on his mixed doubles team...
Anyway, it was good exercise and nice to be outdoors (82 degrees and sunny at the start of the lesson!). I'm looking forward to continuing the lessons, and maybe even being on a team someday =)
I used to take tennis lessons for a couple summers when I was around 8 or so. It was a good thing, too, since we didn't go over any basics like the proper way to hold a racket, scoring, or rules, etc. I do miss the dumb dumb suckers you could win for picking up the most balls on the court, though.
The coach was a guy named Joe, with a thick accent hailing from the Czech Republic. His daughter Natalie also accompanied him. She is 10 years old and has been playing since she was 5. She was a little superstar! Apparently Joe and Natalie are not the regular coaches of this class; they were filling in for Mark, who is with his girlfriend in the hospital.
My backhand was smoking! My forehand needs more practice. My serves, which are wimpy and meager, always land in-bounds. Joe was so impressed he asked me to be on a women's tennis team that practices on Monday nights but has matches on Thursday nights. I told Joe I square dance on Thursday nights (even though I haven't been in two weeks)! Then he suggested I play on his mixed doubles team...
Anyway, it was good exercise and nice to be outdoors (82 degrees and sunny at the start of the lesson!). I'm looking forward to continuing the lessons, and maybe even being on a team someday =)
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