It's finally over...and boy has it been interesting.

This has been the longest school year it seems. For me it really goes back to April 2008 when I found out I was being involuntarily transferred, destination unknown at the time. I had to pack up my entire room and undecorate at the end of school last year and was really just miserable all summer because I didn't want to leave. I didn't work on any lesson plans, but then again how could I seeing as I didn't know where I was going or what I was going to teach. About a month before school was to start I found out I was going to be teaching 7th grade at River Valley but the teacher I was replacing hadn't moved her stuff out so I couldn't move in. I met with my new principal and got a copy of a math book but I was still so unmotivated that I pretty much just bailed on making any sort of lesson plans. Then 1 week, 1 FREAKING WEEK before school was to start I get a call and someone at CHS was leaving and I could stay. I was so happy!!!! I go into school and unpack and redecorate over the next few days. I was so focused on getting my room back together that I couldn't get any lesson planning done...did I mention that I was teaching 4 different subjects 3 of which I hadn't taught in about 6 years and never at CHS!? Top it all off with getting less planning time and adding 2 more periods to teach to our schedules this year, I've just felt so behind and unprepared all year long. Throw in there taking classes both semesters. !@#$%! Then the last probably 2 months of this school year were particularly hectic being one of the senior sponsors and getting things together for honors day and graduation. And boy were they insane. I worked my butt off making the 2 slide shows for the seniors. The one we showed at baccalaureate was okay we just didn't have it rigged so that it went through the entire sound system and had to hold a mic up to the computer. But on honors day, of all days, 10 min before the program started the sound system worked and it was "surround" sound so it sounded awesome. Then when it's time for Mr. Rowland to speak to the crowd and the seniors walk in....NOTHING! The sound wouldn't work at all and we still don't know exactly what happened. It was so disappointing. The tradition of walking in and out to music and watching the baby/senior slide show was gone out the window. And then at graduation...well before the ceremony even started I got chewed out because I misspelled one of the graduate's name on the back of the program. Then we had a student go against our 'orders' per say about her speech she was supposed to give and basically embarrassed all of Charlestown and all of those involved with the school. And in the middle of the kids receiving their diplomas one of the graduate's 2 sets of parents got into a fist fight. A FIGHT AT GRADUATION!! I mean seriously?! All I know is that it's finally over and I'm not taking any classes or teaching this summer. I'm going to relax, spend tons of quality time with my little girl, work on getting her potty trained (she is so stubborn it's not even funny), and just have a good time.