So it's official. I handed in my letter of resignation today. I'll be finishing off the year here at East but this'll be my last. If you're asking yourself why I resigned instead of fighting it more, if I resign I get a good letter of recommendation, which is better than a big red FIRED on my personnel file. I've been at this for the past month or ( Read more... )

freaking job

Yesterday was Bethany and I's firstest wedding anniversary ever. After looking back on the year, so much has happened that it's hard to belive it's only been a year ( Read more... )

Bethany's treating a man who thinks he's dead.

He's not eating anything because dead people don't eat

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snicker snicker

It's been a rough couple weeks here at work. Some classes are driving me up the wall, administration breathing down my neck, money is tight for the program, and I have a handful of kids failing regardless of my efforts to help them out. I think this had been an even harder year than any I worked at Delton. I'm also missing a lot of people lately ( Read more... )

Hey guys. If you get this message I thought I'd ask you all for some prayer for a teacher at my school. His 19 month son died today of a prolonged cancer the boy has had since he was 12 months old. This is pretty hard on the teacher as you can imagine, but it's also hard on a lot of the staff here too who are close to the family, or even just ( Read more... )

School started yesterday at East Grand Rapids. After weeks of meetings, introductions, and tons of pressure from the administration, I was ready to get back into the classroom and actually do my job. Well, I thought I was pretty well prepared. Little did I know ( Read more... )

well we're all settled in. grand rapids is an interesting place thus far. bethan started her job on monday. I started new teacher training and have been loosing sleep ever since... eep. expectations are higher for me than they have ever been, which makes me nervous. eh, we'll survive, at least i'm in good company, they're hiring 21 other ( Read more... )

Schadenfreude! Taking pleasure in the pain of others

...hehe, those silly Germans and their funny words

This weekend Bethany and I spent it up in Pentwater at her family's cottage on Lake Michigan. When I say this weekend I mean Friday until today, it's hard coming back to work cuz my days are all screwed up. It was a lot of fun up at the cottage because we didn't do a heckuva whole lot except read and eat, which was just fine by me ( Read more... )