Entrepreneurship Final Project

I swear, this wasn't even my idea. I cannot express how happy I was when we decided to do this. We shared it with the entire community this evening at the "Black and Gold" awards ceremony. I was really proud.

working it

You know, I've never tried to claim that my life is hard, because it isn't, in fact I live a pretty blessed life, but GD, sometimes, I just don't know. If you're wondering why you haven't seen a blog post in over a month, it's because I've been working my ass off. I cannot find words (believe me I've tried) to quantify exactly how much work I have to do between planning for 7 classes and working on my teaching portfolio, just trust, that's it more work than anyone person should be asked to do. I could quite literally spend all of my waking hours at school working on these two things and never finish. I'm getting sick of feeling like this, like there is never an end. The good news is that there is an end, my teaching portfolio is due May 31 and the last day of school is June 5. 

This is good news, but it's not all good news, I still don't have a contract, and I was just informed that if I don't have one by June 31, I will not be getting my teaching certificate renewed, which means that I cannot teach next year. This is devastating to me. Because I've been so overwhelmed just trying to keep my head above water, I've had no time to look for new employment. I have completely dicked myself. If I was smart, I would have quit lesson planning last month and made it my full time job to find a new job, but I didn't want to do that. First, it would be really unfair to the children here, second, I don't want to leave. I have been going a million miles an hour for over a year. I've lived at four different addresses in two states over the last 13 months. My life has been filled with uncertainty. Four days after school gets out I'm suppose to be in Gustavus starting my kayaking gig and I'm contracted to do that until August 18th. I don't think that I can emotionally, or physically for that matter start in a new district in the fall. There are limits to what I can do and I think that would be pushing it. For the first time in my entire life, I'm just too tired.

The good news is that I might have a part-time school librarian/teacher/counselor gig here in Thorne Bay which will fulfill the requirements of my program. The job has yet to be posted, and I will of course have to apply for it, but I'm confident that I will get it. 

It's really weird, I normally feed on uncertainty (point-in-case: moving to Anchorage last  year without a job prospect) but I'm sick of it. I don't know if I'm finally growing up (at the ripe age of 28) and experiencing something that normal be people feel all time that prevents them from living a nomadic lifestyle with no attachments and no possessions but something is changing or maybe I'm just exhausted. 

 Earth Day 2012

 Trash Art Competition

 Dance Party

Yoga

Please, if you're reading this, send me a positive employment thought. It would one less thing to worry about.