22, 22, 21

i hope this is not me.

in 5 days, i start my 1st day of 2nd grade [that is, teaching]
i have 22 students, but that could easily become 23 or 24, but i'm hoping and thinking it will stay at 22.
i am 22 years old.
i am in room 21. would have been cool if i were in room 22 since i have 22 kids in my class and i am 22, yeah?  but in about 3 months, i'll be 23, so that would spoil everything.
oh, and i have 11 boys and 11 girls.
cute, huh? and perfect. we can do some ballroom dancing or square dancing, or i can make them line up in boys and girls lines and link arms on their way to lunch. awww. 


i left my house half past 7 and was at my classroom a quarter to  8. we had a 3 hour faculty meeting, and then i spent the rest of the day in my classroom. i found/was shown the extra, 5th 2nd grade teacher set of teaching supplies and materials = goldmine!  i left the school a quarter to 6 and stopped by walmart.  i have such a love/hate relationship with that place.  love: i can get EVERYTHING there--grocery shop, craft shop, school supplies shop, hardware...you get the point. hate: lines. why are there 40 check out lanes and only 9 of them open? and why is the "speedy checkout" lane a 15 minute wait? and it's always so busy. and i am target bias. those are my reasons for the hate.  but now that i'm teaching, i go there like once a week. to further deplete my bank account.

and now i am watching project runway and writing names on clothespins and popsicle sticks. double sided, two sets of each. so that's 4 sets x 2 = 8 times.

oh, and today in my faculty meeting my new principal [whom i love! she had a turtle in her classroom too. oh, that reminds me.  JAMES DANGER has been transported to his new home--miss kendrick's class, room 21.] anyway, my new principal asked if anyone's had the nightmare yet.  i had a semi-nightmare, more like a panic bad dream, a few weeks ago--my first day wasn't planned and erin taught next door to me and i had to bring her in my classroom and say "this is the other miss kendrick, she's going to teach you."  but the teacher nightmare will come.  it's all still a little surreal since i haven't actually had the first day of school or been teaching my class yet.

i'll let you know when i do...