The World According to Leslie

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!! I'm simply amazed that 2017 has ended and today begins 2018! My motto for this year is "It's going to be great in 2-0-1-8!" (You have to say the numbers separately for it to sound right!) Anyways, I made a list of goals for this year. Some of them are things I have done before, but I want to do again. Some of them are things I've never done, but I want to challenge myself. I didn't make any RESOLUTIONS this year. I guess if I were to make one, it would be to do things that make me a better person, a happier person.  I read somewhere, and shared with my Sunday School teens, that only 12% of people actually succeed in completing their New Year's Resolutions. It also said that about 1/3 of people never actually get started with them at all. That sounds bad, but the reason given for it is that if people say "I'm going to lose weight," but they don't put in the meal planning, correct grocery shopping, and daily wo...

So I said something once...I think.  But, I have a new job.  I will probably never list the school by name, but it is in the same school district where we live.  (There are 7 high schools there.) Since I am a new teacher (Beginning Teacher 2), I started work today!  I will work this week, and then ALL teachers arrive next Monday!  Today thru Wednesday, we have group training for all the new teachers.  Thursday and Friday I will be at my school site!  Hopefully I will meet my mentor teacher one of those days.  Hopefully I will get my room and keys.  I haven't said much about the job because it seems surreal.  I guess I will show/tell more about my room when I actually get it.  Since I didn't have a room (I floated) last year, it's kind of hard to believe until it happens!! Tomorrow we are talking curriculum.  Wednesday, I have no idea what we are doing.  I am totally EXCITED!