Tonight is the night kids either love or hate; tomorrow is the first day of school. Or at least at our school it is. Other surrounding schools are starting after the Ramadan break and with Ramadan just starting they have another 4 weeks vacation. The summer would have been too long for me so I don’t mind starting now.
My room is finally put together allowing me to start laying out plans for the next 4 week. The big unknown for me is teaching Computer Science with not much written material to go by – I will be shadowing what the other teacher is doing and he even suggested it. I don’t want another HS experience like I had last year with some of the students being down right annoying and I know I am partly to blame with being too uptight with them. It is a new school year with new students. Amen.
Tomorrow I will have my advisory group for the morning and then I will be free from 11am on so I can get more planning done. I feel like I have the pieces but need to put them in place.
After coming home I went for a nice swim and then hopped on a bike to go play tennis at the tennis club. I joined last week to have another avenue of activity. There are lots of members and many were welcoming to me. I went tonight hoping I could hit some. Well, the timing was such that they put me right into a game that was just starting. I was hoping to have eased into tennis again after not playing consistently for about 2.5 years. Nope. Tonight was sink or swim. Two of the other players were very good and weren’t too annoyed with playing with me. We had some good rallies and I did make some good shots. Luckily it did start to rain which is unusual but just enough to get the courts wet so we had to stop. It is hot and muggy and everyone there is dripping sweat whether they are playing or just watching.
Another new teacher comes tonight and he is having an eventful journey with a plane troubles in Detroit and Saudia Airlines not accepting his ticket for the next leg but he has a back up on Qatar Airways. Tehmina upon her arrival had her passport stamped but then the clerk had her held until a male staff member came to claim her but no one ever logged in her via the computer so officially she is out of the kingdom. Now this will hold up her iqama process. There is always something.
My prayer for tonight is to make math class more hands on this year.
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