Week 2 is Over

We had our first football game last night—we lost—phooey. It was exciting. I don’t think I even watched the game, but I had a lot of fun just talking to people and enjoying the environment. I was surprised that so many from our school came out to the game. Parents were excited to see the cheerleaders and were very proud of what they had been learning and doing.

It has been a rough week at school. My voice has been scratchy all week. I think it is because of sinus drainage or just exhaustion from talking all of the time or maybe it is from me being tired. I have very long days. I get up around 5 and don’t stop until 9 at night. I am working hard all of the time trying to make sure that my teaching is effective as well as my cheerleaders are taken care of.

I am finding out that my freshman thinking I am mean! I go over rules and procedures every single day and probably will do so for at least the rest of the month. I am already behind in teaching my curriculum b/c of the student schedule issues that they are having at the school. But I’m going spend this week really trying to catch up. So I will probably lecture more than I had planned to. I’m finding that these freshmen don’t know much of anything. I gave them a Mapping History Worksheet—busy work—and a lot of the students could not even comprehend the directions or what to do with the sheet. This is surprising—I’ve got a lot of work to do and short period to do it in.