I GOT A JOB(s)!!

I started this blog with the intention of keeping track of the events in my life being a newlywed.  To be perfectly honest, there wasn't much worth blogging about up until now.  Sure, I was subbing but that didn't exactly warrant many updates.  Wes's job situation has been bleak to put it nicely.  So, I just abandoned this blog before it ever really got up and running.
Hopefully the great news I have gotten in the past few weeks will change that!!


First, I was contacted about tutoring for the Ole Miss athletic department.  (Very Miss Sue/Michael Oher ala The Blind Side)

 

And yes, I am even tutoring some pretty well-known athletes!  It is really fun and a welcome challenge.  I have 8 student-athletes a day and am helping all of them in the same class--Elementary Statistics.  It has taken a little while for me to remember some the concepts--variance, standard deviations, z-scores, etc.--since it has been 10 years since I took that class.  

*Speaking of 10 years--my class (all 32 of us that graduated in 2001) had our 10 year HS reunion last weekend.  I already had plans, so I didn't get to make it.*

The other BIG EXCITING news is that I got a teaching job for the Fall!!!!!!!!!! After sending out what seems like hundreds of applications and resumes, I was called for 4 interviews.  One of those was at a local school, and the other 3 were all 30 minutes to an hour away.  Needless to say I was really hoping for the local school to work out.  It is a wonderful school in an outstanding district.  It was also the first interview I had, so I feel like I was not at my best because I was SO nervous.  I went on the other 3 interviews and felt really good about all 3, but the driving was just going to be so much.  I was actually offered 2 of the 3 jobs.  I was able to bide some time and not answer one way or the other for a few days.  Then, I got the call to come in for a second interview for my DREAM JOB!  That was Monday.  Today I was called and told that I would be recommended for hire as a first grade teacher at the next school board meeting!  To those of you not in education, that is really just a formality.  Rarely does a school board not approve a principal's recommendation.  

To say that I am giddy/ecstatic/thrilled/relieved would be the understatement of the century.  

I will not say where exactly I will be teaching next year for privacy reasons...there are some creepers on the internet!

But, stay tuned for more frequent blog posts.  Kids make great material!