School: Houston Hawks
Colors: Red, Black, Grey

Today was the first true day of teacher time on site. Monday and Tuesday were early morning, long drives and long afternoons of district information and teacher advice tidbits. You know stuff that you're not taught in college and wish you were or wish the school district is kind enough to offer it like this one.

This Mat-Su School District is all encompassingly quite a dynamic place of employment. In addition, it's literally 22,000 square miles big! Unheard of! WHOA! Thus, there is a level of professionalism that seems necessary for order.

We like it here! Everything we do on our inservice days is either paid or for credit through UA, University of Alaska. In fact, for a little more bland info, there's this Reading in the Content Area seminar that we "have to" go to, but we can give them $75 and have 2 credits for it! HILARIOUS! I hope to finally quite shurking my credit requirements and get that salary up, up, up!

Evergreen: "Mary you have to start your masters.....now." "Oh I'm moving, so sorry."
Chow: "Mary you need to take these 12 hours within 3 years." "Oh, no, oops, I'm moving."

I found out I have a random 1 credit hour at Univ. of Toledo! HA! And I'm waiting to hear back from BGSU on some others. It would seem I would have royalty service simply b/c of Bruce, but Toledo beat them, hee, hee. Sorry for the slam brown and orangey!

DAD, WHAT DO YOU WANT FOR THE BDAY!?

So have I mentioned I have to take 2, 3 hour courses online!? In, done, and transcripted to Juneau by January in order to even teach the rest of this year! Ahhhhh! WHOA! Or I could just forget and not have to work from March 5th on. HAHahhahhahaha. Oh wait, that's not cool. Not a good joke at all Mary.

What else, what else....oh like everyone and their mom here is not originally from Alaska. They are all, ALL from somewhere in the lower bla bla. Most seemingly from Idaho, Washington, Minnesota, Texas, Indiana, and believe it or not OHIO! WHAT!

All have been offering their love and adoring for Alaska winters! Claiming Colorado-esque sunshine, and powdery perfection void of slush and slop! We'll see. They've all also said, every winter here has been different in some way, whatever that means.

Well, I don't persay like this blog, but I felt like writing something. So here was something :)