First Day of School

Soooo.....in typical Sarah fashion, I was up until 2 AM working on my lesson plan!  Then back up around 6 am to go go school.  I got there and found a fairly good parking spot, only to realize that I had left my lesson plans and textbook at home! (duh! moment #1)  So I went racing back home (thank goodness you can get away with driving 80 on the highway here!), said 'hi' to the bunnies and picked up my lesson plan and books, and dashed back to school.  I had to park at the back of 'F' lot, which is out in the boonies in a gravel lot, but at least I got a spot!  Ok - headed up to my office to meet my new office mates and see my office (that is the picture above - my desk is the one with the blue chair - see how clean it is?!  I am in the old offices, but I like them better - they have a 'lived in' feel and close to the department office and printer room and copy machine) My office mates are all nice, but lightyears ahead of me in their studies!  They helped me get my class roster...well almost get it.  It kept printing pages 1 and 3, but no page 2, and finally I asked what the deal was, and one of the them says - it prints double-sided!  Page 2 is on the back on page 1.  That would be duh! moment number 2.  Ok - I got a class list, I headed down to the classroom, got started, put stuff on the board, and then started roll.  No one on the roll list was actually in the room.  that's when the instructor for that section showed up (5 minutes late) and said there had been a mistake and I was over in a different building.  Fortunately he had a map on him, and knew what room I was assigned.  I go dashing over there and my students were all waiting for me, which was nice.  They seem like a great group of kids, and the new room has windows!  The lesson went fine, which was a relief.  But wrong classroom, that would be duh! moment number 3.  then I had a quick break, went to pay my student bill and it was THOUSANDS of dollars!  I nearly had a heartattack, but told myself to take a deep breath, there must be a mistake.  (turns out there is, and they are working on getting it straightened out!)  I went to my first class, and it went really well.  It was all supposed to be review - and thankfully, it was indeed review for me!  So hopefully that means I am in the correct class and not in too far over my head!  After that, I spent the rest of the day working on taking care of all the little details, checking the pre-requistes of my students (making sure they have enough math to be in my class), meeting with the Core Supervisor for College Algebra, figuring out office hours, and other such details.

Drawings on an office mate's chalkboard - see the train on the left?