Summer, summer, summer time!

It's summertime!! I'm happy to have a break now...however, I do realize that it also means the end of another job. My screening (perceiver) interview went pretty well on Monday. They sent me an email the next day saying that I was now in the system for principals to call me and set up official interviews. Still waiting on that...yeah.


Let's see.. The last week of school went pretty smoothly. Monday we had just a regular schedule day but then Tuesday through Thursday were exam days. I got my exams graded pretty quickly and did everything I was supposed to do in order to leave the room clean and orderly.

Oh yeah! My friend Amanda Farner and I went to Seattle last weekend to run a half marathon and the weather turned out BEAUTIFUL! We were afraid that it would be rainy and cold but it actually was quite the opposite! Boise got a bunch of rain/snow on Saturday while Seattle was brisk and sunny. It was the perfect running weather. We both ran very well for not having trained hardly enough. She was about 3 minutes later than me crossing the finish line (3.15 and 3.18, respectively). That was slower than I had done in my past 2 races but that's ok. I'm not in it for the time, just the fitness and accomplishment of running 13.1 miles.. :) Anyway, I have another half marathon on June 19th that I really need to keep my endurance up for and continue my running. The thing that hurt me the most this last time were my hips and toes (blisters). My muscles were pretty sore but my knees did wonderfully. They didn't hurt me at all this time. Let's keep that up. After the race on Saturday, we were all planning on just going to the room to relax and recover a little and then we had thought that we'd get all gussied up and go out for a night on the town...nope. Didn't happen. We got in our comfy clothing, took a nap/shower and then threw on sweat shirts and jeans and tried to hobble over to some stores at Pike's Market. We walked in the crowds of the market for a little while and then decided that it was time to head back to the hotel area to get something to eat for dinner. We tried to do some shopping but our bodies were not agreeing to that. Oh well, saved some money that day-ha! We left on Sunday morning and got back about 6:30pm that evening. It was a great trip with a great friend. She wants to do it again, surprisingly. I had told her that she would either love or hate the whole experience of a half marathon and it turns out, she loved it. As soon as she crossed the finish line and sat down for a minute, she said, "I want to do another one." HA!


Kyle wants to do one. He's starting to feel left out of the whole half marathon experience. He's done a 10K with me and a 5K but no marathoning. He wants to really do one. I think he wants to do the City of Trees with me this next October. The problem is that he'll be on night shift by then and that makes it difficult but I think he's willing to take a few days off for it in order to participate.


Anyway, school's out and I'm happy and Kyle's on day shift for the summer so everything's good.

YAY!

I just got an email today that said that my name showed up on a list for a screening interview for an ESL position in the Boise school district!!! My interview will be on Monday at 4pm--perfect timing because I don't even have to leave class early to make it on time! It must be a sign...now to make myself extremely marketable and wanted...

Two possible options

I've just applied to 2 ELL jobs:

One at an elementary school and one at Boise High!! The one at the elementary school closed last Tuesday and I haven't heard anything yet and the one at Boise High was just posted today and won't close until this weekend. I'm thinkin' that the one at Boise High will be a definite interview (hopefully) since I longterm subbed last Spring! YEEEEE!!!!! I really hope I get a call! Wouldn't that be great if I got a job offer before the summer even began?? No stressing over the summer...aahhhhh that would be great. Absolutely awesome...but I better be careful right now and not get my hopes up too high.

And then there were none

Our birdies are dead. All babies have somehow fallen out of the nest and died. I guess the mom and dad will think twice next time about making a nest on a front door.

Job lost...possible job found

I'm sure you've all heard by now that next year I won't be working at Caldwell HS anymore. They talked to me about a month ago to tell me this and I was sorta devastated. I knew it was a possibility so it wasn't a complete surprise but still. It hurt a little. So, Friday while I was in the language lab with my kids, I was scanning the school websites to see if there were any other job positions available because there hadn't been many for my field posted yet. Well, lo and behold, there was a position open to everybody who wanted to appy for an ELL teacher at an elementary school!!!! You better believe that I quickly put that position on my online application! I quickly emailed the 3 people I had asked for recommendation letters to see if they could get me the letters a little sooner than when I had asked for them. I hoped they would understand since the closing date for the position was a mere few days (this coming Tuesday). After the position closes, that's when I guess they decide who to call or who not to call. So, keep your fingers crossed, ladies and gentlemen!! Maybe I'll hear something by the end of the week! :)

Remaining eggs hatched