To get a sub, or to not get a sub...

As I contemplate this new blog and what I want to share, I also must decide whether or not I want to get a sub for tomorrow or not.  See... on Thursday and Friday, I really should have called in a sub.  I was NOT feeling well, and therefore was very crabby.  So, instead of making that definitive decision, I'm simply going to write my first entry.


This is the musings of a first year teacher who never would have thought she would be teaching in an urban school--and I use the term "urban" loosely.  It's Grand Rapids; so it is urban to West Michigan, but tame compared to Chicago.  I teach 7th grade math, which is something else I wouldn't have guessed I'd be teaching.  Not even a year or two ago, I was sure I'd be teaching high school or working toward my doctorate.  I though I might be a professor of mathematics.  After student teaching and teacher assisting, I absolutely fell in love with middle school and can't imagine what it's like to teach high school seniors. 

Anyways, I was hired to teach at Alger Middle School on the first day of school and started teaching on day 3.  I had no time to prepare my room, curriculum or procedures.  It was a crazy first month or two.  It's hard to imagine that I am coming out of those first months in one piece!  The kids can be hard to deal with, and I'm still playing catch up.  I'm trying to get ahead in my planning, but then there is always some paperwork, meetings or other expectations that I was unaware of.

So, that's pretty much the situation in a nutshell... and now, the question is why do I feel so moved to write a blog?  I guess I always feel moved to write/journal things... I'm just not good at keeping this up.  I'm going to be optimistic and assume this will be better.  Hopefully my anecdotes and musings will be amusing or helpful to others.  I would love to hear your comments, so please leave them!  Email me if you would like, but it's not time for me to go off and decide whether or not to get a sub...

UPDATE: I still really want a sub, but there are meetings to attend, papers to handle and crazy kids to ref... So, I'm just going to have to suck it up (again)