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It has been quite a week since I have gotten back from Spring Break!

All of you that are in Texas are well aware of all of the budget mess that is going on with the state. For a girl getting ready to graduate it is pretty scary. On Tuesday, the principal at the school where I am Student Teaching, caught me in the hallway and told me that he needed to talk to me. Of course I was scared and all the usual thought were running through my head...

What did I do wrong?

What is he going to get mad at me for?

etc.

Well, come to find out, I had nothing to be worried about. He simply came to tell me that he was about 80% sure there was going to be an opening on the campus. He told me this before it had been posted and it is still not posted today. I thought that was a good sign for him to come and tell me that. 

Now, let's fast forward to today, Wednesday. I had my supervising teacher from my university come today for my 2nd observation. First off, she calls me at about 9:45am and she is supposed to be there at 10am to tell me that she is just now leaving Kerrville. Well, that made things interesting because I had to start my lesson without her. It turned out okay because I got a perfect 117 of 117 possible points on my evaluation...can you say excited! Part of the procedure is that I have to take a copy of the observation to the principal which I was excited to do. When I got there, the conversation got pretty interesting. First off he was very impressed with the observation and then he asked me a couple of interview type questions which he does every time we talk. I am very grateful for that because it is great practice for the future. So then the conversation got interesting. He told me that the MS principal had called asking if I could long term sub for one of the 6th grade ELA teachers who is resigning effective Friday. Initially, I thought no way, I love my 4th graders too much, but then thought about it a little more. The principal thought that it would be a great opportunity for me and it would be more experience that I could add to my resume. 

After a lot of thinking and some praying, I have decided to take the challenge on. The catch though is that I still have 5 weeks of student teaching left to do. The current librarian at the MS used to be the Pre AP 8th grade ELA teacher and was amazing. She was by far my favorite teacher that I had in middle school and she is going to serve as my mentor teacher. She is going to let me observe next week while she gets the class trained again and then I will take over the following week with her still around. After that I am going to be all on my own as if it was my own classroom and I will finish the year out with the kids. I wont get paid for it until May 5th, but that is okay. I am nervous but excited all at the same time. The best part though is that I am only going to have 3 class, 2 Pre AP 6th grade ELAs and then 1 regular ed class. Only having 2 preps is going to be way better than the 4 that I currently have in 4th grade. We are on a 7 period schedule but we are double blocked for English so that is why I will only have 3 classes. The best news though that this job is going to need to be filled for net school year. The FMS principal told me today that if I rock it, there is a pretty good chance it will be mine along with coaching middle school girls athletics. She is calling the superintendednt tomorrow morning to run it by him and make sure it is okay and then it will be official that I will be moving. 

The sucky part of all of this is having to say good-bye to my 4th graders which I am uber sad about. Any suggestions for making it easier for all of us?

Also, know of any good MS resources or blogs that I can use or look at?

Excited to share my new adventure with you all!