School

We finally made it! We are in the building and what a building it is. There are some features that would make a teacher fall in love. First…there is storage – floor to ceiling along one whole wall. Second…there’s a sink in every room WITH counter space. Third…there are hangers along the ceiling that can be used to hang things – and they can be moved along the track wherever you want them. Fourth…the wall are completely ‘spongy’ so that you can put thumbtacks in anywhere you want. Fifth…they are big (larger than Chinook’s). Sixth…there are about 14 kids in each classroom. Seventh…the science room is really a science lab with everything you need to conduct hands on experiments. This is just heavenly.

Getting into the building has been really difficult. Today was our first day in and they had organized about 100 kids, alumni and parents to come help move everything. The problem was that there was also a typhoon headed our way. Instead of working all day, it was called off at 1:00 so that everyone could get home before it hit (we’re actually on the outer fringe of it so it’s not that bad but there are definitely high winds outside.) My library has a lot of the furniture and chairs and a good part of the AV stuff already moved in. We have all of the books to move but with the wind and rain coming down they didn’t want to get everything soaked. There are still a lot of boxes left in the gym to be moved. I did get a chance to get some of the AV stuff out of boxes and on shelves or checked out to people (the more they take, the less I have to shelve). I will be barcoding a lot of stuff here because most of the AV stuff is not barcoded. It will take a while but with only about 25 classrooms it won’t be difficult to get it done. Some stuff gets shared because there is not enough for one a piece but everyone is flexible. Already found the ‘tech’ guy who likes to hang onto the Elmo to “make sure it’s not messed around with”. It’s fine because he uses it frequently.

I now have all of the boxes in the library – hundreds of boxes – looks like thousands of boxes. I have to wonder when it will all end. At least there is a light at the end of the tunnel.