The World According to Leslie

When school lets out, my niece (who is a junior in high school) picks my daughter up and takes her to my mom at daycare!  I love it.  It gives my niece a little money every week, and it gets my daughter "home" safely!  My niece goes to the same high school that I went to, my siblings (including her dad) went to, and MY dad (her Grand Dad) went to.  It's a great school.  We just moved into the district so that my daughter, too, will be attending the same high school in a few years. However.... (There's always a "however," right?) However... the rival high school is just up the street (a few miles). The daycare is in the district for the rival high school. :(  So...yesterday, I went to pick up my daughter at daycare.  When I got there, a group of kids from the rival high school were standing in the middle of the intersection where I needed to turn.  (It was a side street, but STILL!) They saw me and moved.  One of them is in my Gi...

Tonight at my assigned school, we have Open House. So, when the kids get out at 3:30pm today, I get to make a mad dash for Chasity. Then I get to come home and freshen up (comb the hair, brush the teeth, etc) and head back to school. I do hope to meet some of the parents tonight. Unfortunately, unless they did a "ConnectEd" (phone tree type system) message, most of the parents I'd like to meet probably don't know about the Open House. You know, there are parents who are "on top" of everything. The kid shows up for EVERYTHING at school. Then there are the parents that either don't care or just can't do it all. Those are the ones I want to meet; I'd venture a guess that those are not the ones who will attend tonight. I think the Open House is a great idea. The students generally get new teachers each semester. So, Open House is a time for parents and students and teachers to all be in the same room. I really like it! (I might have a diff...

Today I found out that I have been placed at A L Brown High School for my Student Teaching. I begin ST on Monday...Jan 11th! I'm excited... ...except for... ...I HATE A L BROWN! Ok! OK! I have never attended there, but they were our rival in high school. So, I have to be very careful not to say anything that will identify me as "the enemy". The rivalry is really bad. People have gotten cut, broken noses, and shot because of the rivalry. I'm just glad that it's not football season. (Football is the biggest rivalry! We have the "Battle for the Bell".) So, I'm going to try to be good so that my car doesn't get keyed or the tires don't get slashed. However, I can NOT under any circumstances wear their school colors. So.... I probably won't get to wear jeans EVER! lol :) I'm just excited to know where I'm going finally. UNCC placed me before Christmas then they changed my placement. So, I only found out today where I will...