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Happy Mother's Day!

I'm dedicating this post to my wonderful mother! I hope that she has had a wonderful Mother's Day weekend! I love her so much and I am so blessed to be able to call her my mama! She is always there to support and love me and I'm sure I do not show her my appreciation often enough! Thanks Mama for always being there for me! You are the best!!

My next adventure...

I have some very exciting news! This week has been a very eventful one for me! I started Monday off with an "interview" for a high school math position in Saratoga in which they offered me the job right afterwards. Tuesday I had an interview at East High School in Cheyenne for a part-time math position teaching geometry. I was also offered this position later that afternoon, which I turned down very quickly. The principal that offered me the position told me I shouldn't take the position because I was going to have a very promising career and this job would only hold me back. I told him I was going to need to decline the position because I was looking for a full-time job. He then asked where else I had applied in Cheyenne and if I had any other interviews set up. I told him I had interviews at McCormick Jr. High and Carey Jr. High which he then proceeded to tell me that he was going to call them and tell them that they would "be very foolish if they did not hire" me and that he was going to do all that he could to get me a position in Cheyenne. I was very appreciative of him but at the same time it made my decision about Saratoga much harder to make. Here he was basically telling me I would (more than likely) have a jr high job in Cheyenne which is the level I really want to teach and Cheyenne pays about $10,000 more than Saratoga. I decided that I needed to visit Saratoga and meet with the principal and teachers as well as see the community in order to make my decision. So on Wednesday that was my task.

After doing so I decided to take the high school math position at Saratoga Middle-High School. I think this is going to be a wonderful opportunity for me to begin my teaching career with. I will be the one and only high school math teacher at the school and it sounds like I have a lot of work ahead of me! I will be teaching Algebra 2, Geometry, Pre-Calc/Trig, and Calculus, one class of each and possibly two geometry or algebra 2 (depending on how things fall). My maximum class size will be approximately 18 students, which is incredible since at Centennial my smallest class was 19 kids! My smallest class will be calculus and will probably only have about four kids in it! The entire high school has about 80 to 100 students in it, so it is very small, but the biggest high school in my district! I will have a four day work week (well, usually 4.5 days, teachers are usually required to be there for half a day on fridays every week, but once a month I will have a three day weekend). I get to pick out the new math curriculum and help spend grant money on things I feel I need in my classroom. They have told me that I can have just about whatever I think I need! They are putting a SmartBoard in my classroom over the summer which I am very excited about! The school district will pay most (if not ALL) of my masters degree (which I'm not sure what I want it in yet, but time will tell). I get to travel to Saratoga Monday morning to pick out the curriculum (which they will pay me for my time...$25/hour)! So now you all are updated on this very exciting week! I am thrilled to start this new chapter in my life!