8/25/2010 (or 25/08/2010)
Things are starting to move along with school. There are tsill a lot of issues between the owner and the school director in terms of who is conrolling what, but they are working through it. We are working on Understanding By Design for our curriculum development, which is a lot like our scope and sequence at home, but much more advanced in terms of the overarching ideas we want kids to maintain over the years from the course. What we call enduring understandings. I am working witht he social studies department during large group meetings and have written all of my stuff for music on the side. I am getting help to check over the music stuff. Should be fun!

Much of the school buildings are not finished or up to par that they need to be, so we are housing everything on the first floor of the main building since our first class will be so small. That being said, the library I am supposed to run is about the size of two large classrooms put together. They ordered over 3000 individual books for me to shelve, along with about 1000 books worth of classroom reading sets that the english department doesnt have room for, so it should be fun! We do not have a library management system software program so I am not sure how exactly they want me to organize this bad boy, unless we go back to the old card catalogue system ( no way!!) so I am trying to speak with someone my director got me in touch with about getting things up and running. Again, it will be an adventure.

Along with a very small class of freshman (I think we have three so far...lol) we may be picking up one tenth grader. This will be fun because it means I may get the opportunity to teach one class of geography (possibly). It should definitely be interesting.
John brought home takeout yesterday that was a fantastic dish of noodles and potatoes in a spicy sauce...with chicken bones all through it. I figured this out when I plucked the head of the chicken out of the dish. This is the second chicken head I encountered here in a dish so I was a bit more prepared for it, although it was still a suprise. Needless to say we mostly just ate the potatoes out of that dish...lol. We are starting to have our cranky issues because the toilet seat keeps breaking and it takes clothes forever to dry by hanging up, but otherwise...we are still enjoying ourselves. I'll write soon!!