I surrived...

Well, I had my first day of teaching today. To be honest, I was kind of bored. Is that totally bad? I enjoyed my intereactions with the students but the mountains of planning and preparations that I have to do here at the beginning is starting to grate on me. I know I will appreciate all my hard work when crunch time starts to hit, and being organized will help keep me from falling behind...but OMG!!! Its a really big school and everyone seems nice enough but I am used to small staffs and this one has over 50 people. Everyone kind of has their little cliques etc. and it was hard to get to know some of the other teachers. I really miss the last school I taught at. There was about 20 teachers there and the ones teaching in my division were really friendly, we went out for drinks sometimes and talked about stuff and they were really more like friends than anything. I don't really see that happening here. Maybe I just need to give it more time. I do want to stress that its not like anyone was rude or anything...its just a different kind of atmosphere when the staff is that large. Anyway, I best get back to my unit plans - yipee!!

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