Header PromotionToday was our last day of school....and I am changing schools, after eight years, so it was a sad day. It really started out to be a bad day, but ended up good. I had to stop at the store this morning to pick up a flash drive to trade with the one I had at school, so I wouldn't have to lose stuff I had on that one....I got back in the car and my car was dead!!! I turned the key and got cick click!!! So I called road side assistance, my niece brought me her van, and I went on to school and she stayed until they came and towed my car to the Ford dealership. I was late for the first time in eight years and it was my last day there....how sad is that? I live 50 miles from my school. I told my principal that my poor car layed down and died, it just couldn't make that long drive one more day.
I was going to be smart and slip out of the school this afternoon without tears and goodbyes....oh no...they had to call a meeting.....to give me a basket of goodbye goodies...and lots of hugs....and there were lots of tears! I love the people I work with, but with $4.00 a gallon gasoline, it's no longer feasible to work 50 miles from home. I am going to work 25 miles from home now!
About 20 of us met for dinner tonight and I picked up my car at the dealership after having a new battery installed.....I could have sworn the battery looked ok...I mean I raised the hood and LOOKED at it! LOL Ok, looking at it didn't help it...that's all I knew how to do! I thought I was doing good knowing how to open the hood AND knowing where the battery was! I never said I was a mechanic! I'm a teacher, not a mechanic!
So, in August I'll start a new job, with a new battery on my car. I'm glad it wasn't more than that.....I was already dreading having to go car shopping, because I wasn't willing to spend a lot of money on my car.
Hopefully now that summer is here, I can spend some time catching up on my TBR pile!
Chy
"Love, true love, is all about giving of yourself, without regard to what you may or may not get in return." --Kate McCabe (A Texas Wedding Vow)
Enjoy your summer
Enjoy your summer and hope you'll feel very welcome at your new school. It would be hard to leave somewhere that's been your home for eight years, so Good Luck next school year. Our kids get out tomorrow and our last day is Friday. I'm looking forward to more reading time, even though I do work part-time at our local recreation center as a counselor for their summer camp.
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Oh, Chy... I bet that was so hard to leave!
Eight years of driving fifty miles, too! Now, I call that loyalty and love. It's nice that you found a new job that will save you gas and probably a lot of time too. However, I'm sure today must've been one very emotional day for you. It was awfully nice of your coworkers to want to host you a going away get-together. After eight years you certainly deserved it! What grade do you teach, by the way?
Good thing about your car too. Maybe it was just another omen of change - new future, new battery? Anyway, enjoy your vacation!
"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."
- Mark Twain
Good luck
at your new job next school year! Yesterday was sad at my job as well... it was the last day of school for us as well and normally that is a happy day as summer is here. But a long time friend/mentor is being forced into retirement thanks to the budget problems and so it was an emotional day for us as well.
Glad your car issue turned out to be something easily solved!!!
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I have been
teaching Elementary Special Education. I have had 2nd, 3rd, and 4th graders all of these years. Now I'm moving to Intermediate Special Ed. which consists of 4th and 5th grade. I think it's going to be great. I haven't worked with students as old as 5th grade, but I think I will love it. I'm going to miss my little guys, but I look at it as a new challenge.
I grew really attached to my all of my students, but in January I had one come back to me from the behavioral unit in another school in our county. He and I have bonded since then and he has become so dependent on me. I'm going to be miss him tremendously. However, he is moving on to Middle School next year, so he would be leaving me anyway, which will be good for him to broaden his horizens.
Our school is having budget problems also. So it worked out well that I chose to move this year. They were able to move around a teacher, instead of letting someone go. And I know the teacher who is going to be taking my place, and she'll be great with my students. After I found out she was taking my place, I felt more peace with my decision to move on. It was a wonderful place to work, they have done wonderful things for me there, and I wouldn't be half the person I am today if I God hadn't led me to that school. Now God is leading me elsewhere, I just pray He keeps me on His path that He has planned for me.
Chy
"Love, true love, is all about giving of yourself, without regard to what you may or may not get in return." --Kate McCabe (A Texas Wedding Vow)