Awesome the Opossum...
I could vent about the work situation which just took a nosedive into hell, however I don't want to get into it. These last few days have been filled with all that crap. To make a long story short the principal fired the teacher. Told her on Tuesday her last day was Wednesday, she had the day to tell the kids, stuff had to be out by the weekend. We as the faculty were never told by our administration, we found out from her. Our boss would not meet or talk about it, he would not meet or talk with students (who were in tears). He came in this morning, briefly met with the students (and did not allow any teachers there) and told them they were looking for a new teacher and until then they would have a substitute. He then left and had his secretary send out an email saying he wouldn't be in the next day either. So you fire a teacher, never tell the staff or students why, leave for a few days without holding a meeting and expect things to go away?
We were told by our administration that they would prefer we meet about any sensitive issues so that rumors don't fly around. Yet where are they now? Hiding behind their closed doors because they don't want to face the music. I guess somewhere along the line we forgot we were running a school and had students. So now they get their junior year math education fucked up, the confusion of why a teacher they liked and who worked hard (instead of showing movies) was fired. They think it is because too many of them failed her class and now feel guilty she was fired.
Ugh, see I got started and couldn't stop......but I love my job. I just keep myself out of the faculty room and hallway conversations and work hard with the students in my room. Tonight was one of those nights when I am glad I have my job.
Two of the senior girls intern at the Academy of Natural Sciences and tonight they had a dinner for the interns and their families. Well the two students didn't happen to have any involved family members, so they asked if I would go with them. We went down and had a nice dinner with their coworkers and supervisors there. We had some good laughs, some bonding moments, and some "Romano you are such a loser" moments.
It was nice, being outside the gates with students is always an experience. It reminds you that they are people, not just students with a GPA. It is evenings like this that ten years from now we will both remember and smile at.
Then there is the jungle that is our backyard. Now that it is becoming colder our bird feeder is a hot spot. We have been getting the normal sparrows, the occasional cardinal, the fun blue jay, and my personal favorite, the newcomers, the dark eyed junco.....
So in the morning I get up about 6 30am and eat some toast while I watch the bird feeder seeing old friends and keeping an eye out for new ones.
The coolest thing though is the opossum living under our small deck. I have seen it before at night, I didn't know it lived under the deck. However I noticed the dug out holes and the other night I found a three foot long French bread baguette that was jammed in the hole but not able to fit in. The poor girl must have dragged it down the alley from the deli on the corner and into our yard where she could not get into her burrow.
Then last night we were sitting in the dark watching a movie when we noticed our furry friend come out and walk over to drink water out of one of the plant pots on our deck. I took a poor video......such an awesome critter.
I think I like them so much because of they are a marsupial, in fact the only marsupial in North America! I hope she has a mate and we see a possum mommy walking about with her babies clinging to her. Yup, it is the little things in life, the little four pound, pouched, garbage eating things in life.
We were told by our administration that they would prefer we meet about any sensitive issues so that rumors don't fly around. Yet where are they now? Hiding behind their closed doors because they don't want to face the music. I guess somewhere along the line we forgot we were running a school and had students. So now they get their junior year math education fucked up, the confusion of why a teacher they liked and who worked hard (instead of showing movies) was fired. They think it is because too many of them failed her class and now feel guilty she was fired.
Ugh, see I got started and couldn't stop......but I love my job. I just keep myself out of the faculty room and hallway conversations and work hard with the students in my room. Tonight was one of those nights when I am glad I have my job.
Two of the senior girls intern at the Academy of Natural Sciences and tonight they had a dinner for the interns and their families. Well the two students didn't happen to have any involved family members, so they asked if I would go with them. We went down and had a nice dinner with their coworkers and supervisors there. We had some good laughs, some bonding moments, and some "Romano you are such a loser" moments.
It was nice, being outside the gates with students is always an experience. It reminds you that they are people, not just students with a GPA. It is evenings like this that ten years from now we will both remember and smile at.
Then there is the jungle that is our backyard. Now that it is becoming colder our bird feeder is a hot spot. We have been getting the normal sparrows, the occasional cardinal, the fun blue jay, and my personal favorite, the newcomers, the dark eyed junco.....
So in the morning I get up about 6 30am and eat some toast while I watch the bird feeder seeing old friends and keeping an eye out for new ones.
The coolest thing though is the opossum living under our small deck. I have seen it before at night, I didn't know it lived under the deck. However I noticed the dug out holes and the other night I found a three foot long French bread baguette that was jammed in the hole but not able to fit in. The poor girl must have dragged it down the alley from the deli on the corner and into our yard where she could not get into her burrow.
Then last night we were sitting in the dark watching a movie when we noticed our furry friend come out and walk over to drink water out of one of the plant pots on our deck. I took a poor video......such an awesome critter.
Click to viewI think I like them so much because of they are a marsupial, in fact the only marsupial in North America! I hope she has a mate and we see a possum mommy walking about with her babies clinging to her. Yup, it is the little things in life, the little four pound, pouched, garbage eating things in life.