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• The principal visited my class yesterday. It was the really high achieving class that always has good things to say in discussions--so it went fairly well. Dennis (the principal) gave me a glowing report, which made me happy. He's coming again tomorrow afternoon, but it will be during the low achieving class that has that one unruly boy . . . I'll have to enforce martial law on him (the student.) It's a little nerve wracking--having someone in your class evaluating you
• I was stopped at a light yesterday, and I watched a man pick his nose in his rear-view mirror in my rear-view mirror.
• My mom comes a week from today. Then the Friday after that we're gonna drive home!
• Thursday and Friday of this week are teacher's convention, then Monday is Thanksgiving. So we're about to have a five day weekend! And I love teacher's conventions! Plus another cool thing: there are people I know presenting workshops at the convention including my grade seven teacher, Mr. De Jong.
• We had a rather tense staff meeting yesterday afternoon. The tenseness centered around whether or not the board can require the teachers to be a part of a faith community outside of the school. Reminded me a bit of Dordt's requirement that professors need to be part of the CRC . . . . It was a little strange to be there since I'm not officially part of the staff.
• I'm getting tired out by this teaching stuff. I don't know how teachers do it!