Tuesday, July 03, 2007

Making good

Yikes, it was a busy weekend. I'm only just getting to the "no French" story now...

So Friday was the last day of school for teachers. We had our breakfast, said goodbye to the staff who were leaving, and then people began to disperse - some to rooms to clean up, some straight out the front doors to begin their vacation. I was chatting with a friend of mine in her room when her cell phone rang. She got all excited and flustered, and ran off to take the call...

It turns out she had applied for a job in a different district, and that call was to offer her a job. She was sneaky! She didn't tell anyone about it, including me (well, I knew she was applying, but I had only known for about three days). "See? That's why I kept telling you to do whatever you could to stay at this school. I had this up my sleeve!"

I'm sure glad I listened!

So next year there will be a grade 1/2 class available. BUT, there's a teacher who has always wanted to do primary. Apologetically, my principal told me that we'd have to offer the job to her first, because she has more seniority than me, and if she took it, I'd take her job. And her job? Grade 4/5!!!! Just what I was doing this year (or at least very very close).

Either way, I'll be working with fantastic people - the same team I worked with this year if I do the 4/5, who I love - or another grade one teacher who has been teaching grade one for years and years, and is SO sweet and helpful and friendly and AWESOME. And she's told me not to worry, she has everything - her whole program, and she'll give me everything I need; I can jsut do exactly what she's doing. PLUS, the teacher who's leaving is not enrolling a class next year - it's a district special needs position - so she'll leave me all her stuff that I can use, as I don't have ANYthing for primary. Score!

AND I GET TO TEACH IN ENGLISH!!!!

You have N.O. idea how relieved I am about this.

WAHOOOOO!

And now, back I go to what I SHOULD be doing... getting ready for summer school. Ze kidlets arrive tomorrow. It's supposed to be 30 degrees... It's only about 20 now and I'm already melting. Anyone feel like funding air conditioning for a *ahem* hot elementary school teacher? *wink*

7 comments:

karen said...

YAY!!

Anonymous said...

Yippeeee! I am very glad for you Hillary. See God did have a plan for you, I will be waiting to hear how it turns out!

Paul said...

That's fantastic news, and quite the cheeky wink too.

See you soon.

Lawn Mower Queen said...

Yaaaaaaaay! Congratulations!

Nikki said...

Congratulations! That's wonderful news. Isn't it great when things fall into place like that?!

Anonymous said...

Yeah Hillary! I'm so happy for you!

Unknown said...

That's so exciting! What a relief for you, I'm sure!!

And hey...thanks so much for calling the other day! I was SO bummed that I missed it, but you put a big smile on my face for me to hear your voice!! :)