One more week!

Tomorrow I'm going to go into my classroom for the official first time. I think other teachers are going to be there working and stuff. I'll actually be a teacher at a school tomorrow. So nervous. I am going to try and take some pictures, but I don't know how to post them on this thing. I think I know what to do, but I've never tried before, so we'll see.

The room is so empty right now, and I'm not sure if I've got enough stuff to make it look interesting or not. I don't have tons of money and there's not really space for anything fancy, on account of there being the legal maximum amount of students in my classes. A lot of the room is filled up with desks. Hopefully when I start putting everything up it will look ok. Oh dear, I just realized that Staples didn't have any of that stick on the wall putty stuff I was going to use to put my posters up. Hmm. I think there is a little bit left over from last year, but I may have to jot out and buy some when that runs out. I should go check if there's a Staples near my school or not. Maybe that stuff would be at a drug store.

The weekend was good. I went out on Friday to buy things for my classroom with two other teaching fellows. We went to Barclay's in Brooklyn which was pretty good, small-ish section for Spanish stuff. After that we went to Carol's in Queens, and it was pretty lame. It had similar stuff as Barclay's, for the same price, but not organized by content area so you had to go all around trying to spot the Spanish. And it was also REALLY FAR into Queens. From now on I'm sticking with Barclay's and if you are looking for teacher supplies then that is the place for you. I think Carol's may have had more elementary stuff, so if you're elementary and can't find what you're looking for at Barclay's, then try Carol's. Otherwise, don't bother.

I have about a million forms to fill out. Everything seems like it's done retroactively, which is annoying. You get your health insurance and that stuff, but not for a few months. They say they'll reimburse you once you get the coverage, but dropping however much a teeth cleaning costs is really not an option right now. We had new teacher disOrientation, they should have signed us up then and there and given us our forms on the first day of work. Get it together DOE!!!

I'm going to go to sleep now so I can leave here around 8. I want to do as much as I can early tomorrow so that if I'm missing anything I don't only realize it on Friday afternoon when it's too late to come back the next day. I'd like to be done with everything I'm planning by Wednesday, that way Thursday and Friday I can mull over the room and decide to change or add anything.

This is so surreal. I can't believe it's actually happening, it seems like there's no way it's really going to be the first day of school soon. I hope everyone else is as excited as me!