Well we survived the first week of school! And what a great week it was! I was busy at the high school getting all 84 student schedules perfect and seniors on the track to graduation. Jason is teaching two courses; integrated science and biology. He has two classes of each, with the biggest class being 17 students. He spends the rest of his time designing a new class to be offered next year, called island science. He is also helping the school work towards accreditation. This week I am going to be working some time into my schedule to visit the elementary and middle school as well as meeting with each of the seniors to talk about after graduation plans.
We have been really impressed with the students here. They are all very sweet kids. We are looking forward to working with them and helping them learn and grow.
It was nice to get the first week complete and have a 3 day Labor Day weekend to celebrate with. Saturday we stayed home because it was really stormy out, which was a bit of a disappointment because every day last week was sunny! We woke up Sunday to a beautiful morning and called our friend Beth, who is a high school language arts teacher from Bend, Oregon to go on a hike. I’ll attach some pictures from the hike we did. We drove down the road just about 5 minutes outside of town to Sand Dollar Beach. It was a short hike, but still really fun to see more of the island that we hadn’t seen before.
After the hike Beth, Joe & Rachel came over to our house. Joe and Jason went fishing while the girls stayed home and made homemade rocky road ice cream. The guys came home and we enjoyed our ice cream and then all went to Mr. & Mrs. Avey’s house (our superintendant) for a Labor Day dinner for all of the new teachers. It was nice to spend time with everyone.
Today we had a dry morning so Jason and I went out for a run to the ferry terminal. It was so nice to have an extra day off. It was a great first week of school but we are exhausted! We are looking forward to this next week at school and planning a trip to Ketchikan soon to get some shopping done at Wal-Mart. Hope everyone else back home is having as good of a start to the school year as we are!
We have been really impressed with the students here. They are all very sweet kids. We are looking forward to working with them and helping them learn and grow.
It was nice to get the first week complete and have a 3 day Labor Day weekend to celebrate with. Saturday we stayed home because it was really stormy out, which was a bit of a disappointment because every day last week was sunny! We woke up Sunday to a beautiful morning and called our friend Beth, who is a high school language arts teacher from Bend, Oregon to go on a hike. I’ll attach some pictures from the hike we did. We drove down the road just about 5 minutes outside of town to Sand Dollar Beach. It was a short hike, but still really fun to see more of the island that we hadn’t seen before.
After the hike Beth, Joe & Rachel came over to our house. Joe and Jason went fishing while the girls stayed home and made homemade rocky road ice cream. The guys came home and we enjoyed our ice cream and then all went to Mr. & Mrs. Avey’s house (our superintendant) for a Labor Day dinner for all of the new teachers. It was nice to spend time with everyone.
Today we had a dry morning so Jason and I went out for a run to the ferry terminal. It was so nice to have an extra day off. It was a great first week of school but we are exhausted! We are looking forward to this next week at school and planning a trip to Ketchikan soon to get some shopping done at Wal-Mart. Hope everyone else back home is having as good of a start to the school year as we are!
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