The Chronicles Of Nay

Happy Monday! I hope that everyone had a good weekend! Last week was exhausting! I mean I don’t know about you but Tuesday after a break is always harder than Monday! Who am I kidding the entire week after spring break is just exhausting!  The kids were wound up a little tight too! Overall though it was a good week. I had to make some adjustments to seats and rules in my classroom but I think we will get it together! Like I told you in the last blog, the week filled up fast!  This coming week isn’t as jam packed at the moment but we shall see what the week brings! 

I know that all of you have been super curious about my love life. Don’t get too excited. I am back to the drawing board. I haven’t heard from Evan since the Thursday of spring break so I think it is safe to assume he decided that I was too awesome for him. That is fine. On to the next one! Not that there is one I am talking to at the moment but we shall see. Dating is so lame, I get tired of all the getting to know you small talk. Like I hate answering questions like “what do you like to do for fun” because “nap” or “fun?! I don’t have time for fun!”  don’t seem like sufficient responses! Then I am like “well I play in a pool league, I do some geocaching, I am in to photography and I like to read.” It doesn’t matter what order I put those things in, most guys will inevitably tell me how much better than me they are at pool and that they are pretty sure they can beat me. Maybe they are, I mean I am not like a pro! But still It is exhausting, Kinda like being Mexican American! (you know like from Selena?!) 

Speaking of pool, for those of you that don’t know I play 9 ball on a team and also on a doubles team. My team plays on Wednesday evenings and my doubles team plays on Saturday afternoons. I enjoy playing because it is a  challenge but I also enjoy the adult interactions! haha I have made a lot of friends through this hobby! We are all playing for a trip to Vegas to play in a national tournament. League play comes down to a city tournament and the winner gets to represent the league in Vegas. A few years ago I was fortunate enough to go to vegas with my doubles team! It was a pretty neat experience. Well something that our league is doing now is also sending single players. They just don’t get to send random people; they have to have a tournament. So they had one on Saturday. I am a 2 (that is a low skill number) and the bracket goes from 2-4 then there is a bracket of 5 and up. I played a 4 the first round and beat him. He was not happy. I mean I get his frustration I had to make like half the number of balls he had to make. Then in the second round I got beat. She was also a 4 and she was playing defense pretty well. The whole experience was a little different. In team play I can call over a person with a higher skill level to help me set up a shot. With individuals I was all alone!  I forgot what it’s like to be in an individual sport. I don’t think that I will be killing it in any singles tournaments soon but I enjoy trying! 

So I will be starting a new chapter in my life here in a couple months and it is finally time to share with you all. This year has been a tough one for sure. I did a lot of praying and soul searching. I asked the Lord to give me some guidance about what he is calling me to do. I feel very passionate about my students. I come from a very similar place as these students. I feel I have so much to offer them in hope and advice. I had my “don’t you dare” speech with my 5th period this past week. The “don’t you dare tell me you can’t go to college because you can’t afford it” speech. My students have so many possibilities for scholarships. I tell my students every year that when they get to high school and they start applying for college to look me up I will help them with scholarship applications! Sorry I got sidetracked a little. I do feel so passionate about where I teach I was really struggling with the possibility of moving. I continued to pray and my response was not quite what I thought it would be! Haha  I have been given an opportunity to start taking classes towards my masters degree. I am excited for this new chapter and the doors that it might open. However, to be completely honest with you all I am terrified! I know that I am a fairly intelligent woman however I haven’t done “school” in YEARS! 13 years to be exact! 13 Years ago going to school was my job. I will be going to school and working. I know I can do it. Or at least other people keep trying to reassure me but I am still nervous about it. I mean I am not super awesome with change and this is for sure something new and different. Once I get into the groove of things I am sure everything will be fine but until then I will continue to worry about it! Haha 

I did finish all of my silly flex hours. However, I still have all of my safe school training to do. They are lame! It irritates me that I have to do these trainings and I don’t get paid for this time because it is time consuming! Maybe I will go find a park or something to do them in. That way I will at least be out in nature while I am doing them! Haha I know that I can test out of some of them. Again it is the fact that I have to find my own time to do them in. I was talking to some pool people this weekend and one of them asked very respectfully why there is a teacher shortage. I mean in the grand scheme of things we do get paid a pretty good salary for the amount of days we work. People don’t realize that it is only if we were only expected to work those 180 days from 9:00-4:35. I spend time grading, preparing lessons, doing these safe school trainings, collaborating with colleagues, going to meetings and doing professional development outside of those contracted hours. I am getting better about not spending so much of my time doing work things but it doesn’t help that this year I have 1 planning period. The bottom line is we are tired! Like tired to the soul, not just sleeping for 10 hours kind of tired! Ok I will get off of my soap box, I am going to get a coffee refill and work on these safe school trainings! Y’all have a great Monday!