I got a job!

I know - it is November. I am an inconsistent blogger. It is the first time I feel like I can take a breathe since school started. Yes - I have a real job. I am officially a teacher.

All summer I applied to every job posted. I interviewed 7 times and just missed out every time. It was so depressing and frustrating to keep interviewing and not getting the job. Not knowing what they wanted, not knowing what I could do different to get the job.

Then 36 hours before school started I got a call. Would I be willing to start the first day of school with a new 2nd grade class. YES! But - because of the time, it wouldn't officially be my class. The school would have to go through the whole posting job, interviewing, screening and hiring. I would be starting as a long term sub for the first few weeks, with no guarantee of getting the job.

I spent the next day putting together my first class. Pulling out items I have gathered over the past few years. Things I have saved or purchased in anticipation of having my own class some day. Pulling out all my children's old books.

I think in some ways, just having one day to get my class ready and get ready for the first day of school was a blessing, because I had no chance to get nervous, or over think things.

The first day was so exciting. My class was everything I hoped for and more. I started with only 19 students. Because they split the other two classes and added one, my class was small.


It was almost 3 weeks into school, when I had become so attached to this group of kids I couldn't imagine leaving them, that I interviewed for the job. I finally felt like I did OK in an interview. I got the job!

I have been running every since. Start of school, curriculum night, conferences... it has been a whirl wind of activity. I have loved every minute of it.