No I'm not dead, its just High School

Busy is an understatement to my last few weeks at Harborside and searching the job market. I have dropped off a resume and cover letter at about every school in Kenosha Unified and have had two interviews so far and hoping for some more.

I just got back from a 3 day camping trip with too many freshman and I am pooped (not to mention very, very smelly). This camp trip was part of the expeditionary learning style that Harborside adopted in its charter. It gives students an opportunity to participate in intensives which are activities they do to earn credit. They have intensives like sports and games, cooking, forestry and painting. There is also a section of intensives where students have an opportunity to recover credit from classes failed earlier in the year. Since a D at Harborside is considered failing there was a large group for academic intensives. I was in charge of doing the math and biology academic intensives which was very frustrating and a lot of work.

Some students do not appreciate the opportunity they have to recover credit and are not on track to pass the intensive. These go till the end of school and it looks like it is going to be a long week.

Back to this camping trip and a few stories. I was asked to stay in the cabin and chaperon those who did not want to sleep outside in tents. So you can imagine these students did not want to be outdoors for very long. When it was time to go to bed I asked some student to share some scary stories and the response I got was great. One student made up a story about a troll living under the cabin we were sleeping in. Another about some campers who were murdered by some camp counselors and the last student recited to first 20 minutes of the Spongebob Square Pants movie word for word. This is the same student who knows every plot about every Ernst movie which entertained me very much.

It is sad to think in two weeks I wont be with my kids at Harborside anymore but at the same time it will be a relief to be done with student teaching and be licensed in teaching. The job search is the next order of business and am hoping that goes smoothly.