New job!!

07/29/2014

Time: 1:07am

State of Being: EXCITED! and reallly hot

Song lyric in my head: vacation all i ever wanted. vacation had to get away..
current desire: AC!!

where am I?: in the bedroom on the bed

what's that noise?: the fans




sooooo!

it's awesome how so much can happen in the nine days since i've updated.

so last monday, i get a phone call from one of the many schools i've sent my resume to asking me to come in for an interview the following day. Upon research, I found it was a tiny private school for special needs students, and i like my initial first impression of it via the website. I was a little wary, because the last time i worked at a tiny private school, things didn't go so well. I was really nervous about calling them back at first. The position is part time, and it is teaching two science classes and a social skills class. I have to admit, i am not science brained at all. So this is going to be an adventure. (spoiler alert by the title, i got the job. lol) So I decided just to go into the interview, because i was scared it would be the only phone call i get this year. Plus worse case scenario, i don't get the job, but it'll help overcome those interview jitters if i do happened to get called.

So tuesday I had the interview. I was first given a tour of the school, and I love it! I love the principal and all her philosophies on education. I was invited back to do a lesson demo on friday to a few kids.

So (I just realized how often i say so lol) sometime between tuesday and friday our AC died. yup. mid summer, south florida, no AC. Misery. And there's drama and money involved with the guy who can fix it. Long story short, we don't know when he's coming. ugh. It's HOT! I have the fans blowing on me now. and sorry TMI, but I am quite topless due to anything i wear is just going to make me swelter more. Russ is sleeping in the living room tonight, because it's actually cooler than this room. and both of us in here would probably have way too much body heat for us to bear. so yeh. that's going on. The guy came to check it out and it was working for like half a day on saturday, but then died again. not fun.

On friday, it was Russ' birthday. I feel bad, because he originally wanted to avoid working that day, but because of my interview he had to move around his schedule a bit. And I had to do my lesson demo so he was running around all morning. then had to go home to a sweatbox of an apt.

At the interview, they gave me a little photocopied section of a textbook about the planet orbiting the sun rotating on an axis blablabla, and that was what my lesson demo was to be about. cool. So I bought some different sized styrofoam balls, covered them in colored tissue paper. Had some representing the earth, moon, and i had a huge sun. And I did little demos with them. Had the kids poke the earth with skewers to represent the north and south pole. Took them outside. Made a live demonstration with three kids being the earth, moon, and sun. Told them to start spinning and rotating. Then saying "FREEZE! What's going on here? What kind of eclipse is this?" Then took them back inside to do more. I was talking about winter and summer with the earth tilts when a girl raised her hand and asked how we get spring and autumn? Suddenly, my brain just stopped. I mean I knew the answer. But the lack of sleep from the night before due the the heat and all the prepwork i did to explain summer and winter just knocked out all other info that could possibly be floating in my head. And I tried to explain, but it came out so jumbled and honestly made no sense. I saw the principal who was evaluating me jot something down in her notes, and i just knew that i killed my entire presentation. *facepalm*

But the kids were amazing, and the school was awesome, and I felt great that i got to work with kids again. I missed it so much. So I was really thankful for the opportunity. I knew going into it that I wasn't science brained, and not getting the job wouldn't be the worse thing in the world. And i was prepared to take rejection.

I ended up getting a phone call thursday from another school about a temporary language arts job, and to call back on monday (today) so that was going to be my back up plan.

Well fast forward through the weekend to today.
(the weekend consisted of me working and poor russ having to stay home in the heat. Sunday night there was a pharmacist meeting that i had to help set up for and what-not. blababla boring)
Friday, the principal had told me that I should know something by the end of the day monday (today) so all day long I was waiting for a phone call. And I didn't want to call the other school yet until I got some kind of answer. I had to work 11-9 today. So a little before 4:30, i went to lunch. As SOON as i stepped out the the pharmacy, I get the phone call offering me the job!!

I'm SO excited! I get to be a teacher again! I don't even care that it's science. I can figure it out. lol! plus science has a lot of crafts and cool things to do.

It's part time 11-3 monday through friday so I still have to work the pharmacy at night and weekends. Which is fine. Wal-mart has my insurance, and i've been there over five years. It's good to keep stability. BUT the school is going to pay me $14/hr! 14!! that's the most i'm going to make in any job i've had. not counting the DJ gigs which is a couple hours for 75-100 a night.

so yup. I'm a teacher again!

School starts for the teachers August 11th, and the kids have to go back August 18th. My pharmacy boss already changed up my schedule to accommodate. I know it was an inconvenience to her to change the schedule, but she's known for a long time that i've been trying to get a teaching job. Plus I tell her of every interview I get. (only one this year, but there's been others in the past years) So I'm trying not to feel bad about the inconvenience I've caused. Though this shouldn't be surprising, and I have to do what I have to do.

I'm SO EXCITED!!

anywho, it's HOT! I can't get that excited.
ugh! we need to move. lol
I NEED AC!

peace!
-mel-
1:45am