What a week!!

Sorry it's been a week since I posted last, but first week teaching is such chaos. I taught about 8 lessons this past week, all with a fair amount of success. I'm loving the amount of material and the vast amount of age groups I get to see and meet on a daily basis. I've taught year 9, 12, and 13 last week and I taught year 10 Social Studies today. I even taught Geography last week, plus I get to teach library classes twice a week from now on-Hooray! I love books.

Anyway, due to the loads of paperwork and my last few full-on MVNU lesson plans, there isn't much weektime adventure to speak of. Lane and I decided to move our date day to Wednesday, only to find out that he had an hour long meeting after school that quickly turned into an hour and a half meeting. So we didn't leave until 5:30. We made it into town, did some window shopping on Queen Street, wandered around and even found a sweet as park called Mt. Albert Park. We made some pretty hilarious videos treking up the city's hills, so I'll have to get Lane to post them. We found this hobit-sized tropical tree forest and found Emily Street ( a shout out to all my favorite Emily's out there). We had dinner at mission bay-Seafood to be exact. Followed my gelato which was served to us by a very friendly Middle-Eastern man. We'll definitely go back. The bay at night was simply stunning and Lane of course opted out of dipping his feet into the water because of his new white shoes-What a girl. Good thing he spilled gelato on them 10 minutes later. I had to laugh.

MMM muscles!

We had our usual Staff Meeting on Thursday and I taught for the first time with my CT on Friday. Nerve racking, but I made it all the way through a lesson on "A Man for all Seasons." Then she told me the exciting news that I could teach the rest of the book unit! I have a feeling I'm a bit of a nerdy teacher, but aren't we supposed to be? I'm getting to know the staff more and more each day and learning students' names slowly but surely. They have all been so welcoming. I'm loving being at school everyday, especially in paradise.