School Preparation

I've started preparing my classroom for the year! I am pretty excited to get started, though there is a lot of stuff I still need to find out about the school and how they do different things. I also need to get my textbooks, which are currently in another teacher's room that is locked. I called her to see if I can get them, so I hope to be able to soon. Everyone I've met so far seems really nice, though I don't really remember very many peoples' names. That job will be even more challenging when the students come. I went in today to do some decorating, and I am pretty proud of my bulletin board color schemes and boarder coordination I have going on. The teacher I'm replacing left a lot of stuff in the room though. Some of it may be helpful, but other stuff will need thrown out. I have a lot to sort through, most of which I hope to get through between the hours of 8am and 6pm tomorrow. (I'm afraid it actually might take that long:(

We've decided that we like our church that we've started going to, so we plan to continue to go to that one. It is really a relief because it was challenging at our last apartment to find a church that we liked. I hope the one we are going to has some activities going on. We still haven't met people here. Though, I did SEE one of my neighbors today (which was a first), and we both waved and shouted "Hello!" So, I'm counting this as progress.