Thursday the FIRST

It's just after 6am. I'm UP. I slept well. Time to do
an asana or two to get the blood flowing.

Time to get ready.

FIRST DAY!

Training

I just came back from three hours' worth of the most
inane "training" on abuse prevention in the Catholic
diocese. Seriously.

I'm not exactly the most unbiased person, either, when
it comes to the heirarchy. I had to bite my tongue
during parts of the training video where the church
official was like "to tell the truth, we have made
mistakes in the past..."

NO. REALLY? That's your stellar day-late-dollar-short
remark. I'm sure that makes abuse victims feel better,
especially considering there are still ongoing cases
of things being covered up.

Still, it was one of those things to just go to, get
through, and just file. *rolls eyes*

PLACED! It's official!

FINALLY, and due to the diligence of my wunderbar
supervisor (no love to placement office X[), I am
placed. My home for the term will be a local Catholic
high school.

This is not the place I would have ever thought myself
landing, but HEY! Good school. IN TOWN. CAN WALK TO
IT!! I actually walked there this morning to time
myself. I can make it in 40 minutes. I can't walk
there tomorrow though, because I have to go to seminar
right after in Chicago.

Very excited, VERY RELIEVED. I think my two
cooperating teachers are going to be awesome. They
seem like the type of people who are really going to
be "cooperative" and "mentoring". Not "you're a sucky
student teacher, eat it!" like I've known some of my
friends to have. Yeesh.

I have to finish running around like crazy - gotta
fill out more background check stuff for the
archdiocese and go to some "don't abuse the kids"
training tonight in a neighboring town.

And then I have to figure out what to wear
tomorrow...pack a lunch. The usual.

I'm probably not going to sleep a wink tonight. GAH!

Oh my GAWD

No pun intended...I may yet wind up at a local Catholic high school.

 

*laughs*

 

For those of you who know me, this is the ultimate irony....*proceeds to laugh self sick*

Another Day of Freaking Out

Woke up today wondering what to do. I should have gone to the gym. Actually, I could still do that, and I think I will as soon as I'm done here. Just have to be home by 7pm to watch DOCTOR WHO *happy screams*.

 

I popped in to the office for a little bit today. NOTHING going on there, which is quite strange. I made several phone calls beseeching help for my placement. A former boss of mine whose wife is/was a teacher around here. Left a voicemail. My current boss actually called me after I left the office (she wasn't there when I stopped in), and once I told her the situation I was in, she said she'd call a few people as she used to work in the offices for a school district up here.

 

Called my friend, Kathy, just to talk and she has clients who work in districts (albeit in McHenry). Don't care at this point! JUST WANT A SCHOOL!! She made a phone call and got back to me with someone who said to have NEIU send in my file. YAY - some headway at least! I called the placement office and left a VM saying pretty please to do that asap.

 

MHS called me back today and said they had my file and were trying to see if anyone would be interested. Their policy is to team up STs with TWO teachers, not just one. Another thing that ticked me off though: MHS guy was surprised that I was trying to get placed for THIS semester. You could tell. So again, NEIU is the school known in the area for dropping the ball: all the other schools have had their student teachers placed ages ago!!

 

God. Please let something happen and SOON.

 

 

 

Really Need Help

Seriously, people, if you could send all positive vibes my way for getting a student teaching placement, I would greatly appreciate it.

 

I AM SERIOUSLY FREAKING OUT.

 

It is TWO weeks in and still nothing. Okay, when the placement guy shuts the door and tells me (even though it's not standard practice) to start calling any contacts *I* have, that's a BIG RED FLAG.

 

He's talking of placing me in a middle school. NO. ABSOLUTELY NOT. I need a HIGH SCHOOL experience.

 

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE send good vibes. Needing them, and badly!

Post-Labor Day News

STILL NOT PLACED

[insert string of fun words here]

One would think the life of leisure to be exciting, except it's not. Especially when you don't have a lot of money.

So, great, sitting at home, earning half-pay for NOTHING. No placement. No nothing.

Excuse me while I go to Bally's to work off my anger at the CEST office.