August 2010
6 posts
Week One
As I lay in my bed on this beautiful Saturday morning in Chicago and look out on Lake Michigan, I find myself thinking about the past week. Little items that surround me give hints as to what kind of a week it was.
The Kleenex Box: Only 5 days of constant interactions with 5th graders and not nearly enough sleep, and I am already in the trenches, fighting off a cold. In the past I have gotten...
“Who has never killed an hour? Not casually or without thought, but carefully: a...”
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New Job Insanity, Part 2
Well, with my minuscule moments of internet until I get service in my new apartment, I have decided to continue talking about my new job.
The Neighborhood: It is no surprise to me that a school like KIPP is formed in a neighborhood like North Lawndale on Chicago’s west side. Historically speaking, the school building is one block from where Martin Luther King Jr. stayed when in Chicago...
New Job Insanity, Part 1
As many of you know, I started my new job at KIPP: Ascend on Monday of this week, and it has certainly been a learning experience. Seeing as I am not a classroom teacher and not a Special Ed. teacher, my role has been seriously confusing. My principal Amy has been very forthcoming and apologetic about the uncertainty surrounding everything about my job and what it entails.
The People: One...
Arrival at DFW
peasized:
At graduation, I promised my brother I’d visit him in Dallas if I secured myself a job. And 8 weeks later, ladies and gentleman, I have arrived in Dallas for a weekend of food, drink and laughs!
He has promised me 5 outstanding meals, possible tweener-meal snacks and a visit to his favorite grocery store. Can you tell the Nham babies enjoy good eats?
You are perhaps the tiniest...
Finally!
Ladies and Gentlemen, I am finally employed!!
The wonderful, talented, kind-hearted, fantastic, and gracious Sam Nham passed my name on to a woman at a Charter school, and I now have a job!!! I cannot thank her enough!
Basically Sam asked if she could pass my name on, I said yes, and the woman emailed me the next day. I sent her my resume and she asked if I would do a phone interview on...
