Day 1

Day one wasnt horrible! yay! thats a start i guess. i didnt cry at all this morning as i got up at 5am to shower, get dressed, walk the dog and show E how to prepare Little Es breakfast. I was out the door at 6:20am. No tears at all. Of course it helped that I didnt get to see the baby at all before I left so I didnt have to say goodbye. Then to work. For those who know me I teach high school math. High School, not middle, not elementry, i dont even like freshman. Regardless I decided to take a position through my school teaching in the PAC program in conjunction with FIU (Florida International University). PAC is a program where they target some 7th graders that are at-risk andpull them out of their home school to go to the university for math,science and computers for the first half of the day and then they go back to their home school for the rest of the day. It runs through 12th grade. If they finish they get a full scholorship to college. Many of the PAC kids are national honor society kids and last year our valedictorian and salutorian were all PAC kids. Anyways....I am teaching the 7th and 8th graders pre-algebra, algebra 1 and computers. and i go to the high school every other day to teach 2 geometry classes meaning every other day I am essentially done teaching at 10am...as my planning periods are those days. Great schedule and FIU is about a half hour closer to my house than Southridge (my high school is about 45minutes from my house). There are a lot of problems with the PAC program which I'm sure I'll write about at another date but the pros outweigh the cons by about a million.

I got out around 3:30 after having to do a bunch of work to get ready for tomorrow and headed off to pick up the baby. I was greeted with huge smiles and when i picked him up he layed his head on my shoulder with a huge smile which made today seem worth it. It is definately a shock to be back at work and not easy but it's what has to be done and it will get easier i hope!