A surprise for me, and my school.....

MY FIRST PACKAGE FROM HOME!!!! I was so excited when I received this box fuul of precious goodies from home, let me tell you. It weighed about 30lbs and I had to take a taxi home with it! A co-worker took the duct tape and wrapped the box to make a "handle" so it could be carried out to the taxi! WHat a package it was....full of coffee, tea, towels, stuff I couldn't fit into my suitcases, kraft dinner, sour soothers...you name it, it was in this box! I appreciated it sooo much mom and dad, but u already know that! Love you....

So, this is at the school I work at. It's our staff arean that we live in when we're not teaching! As you can see, we have our best friend the photocopyier machine to your right....on your left we have our wonderful "breakfast" table which consists of 2 loaves of bread, a toaster, peanut butter, jam, and knives for spreading *L* Above the table on the wall is our big calendar of events, meetings, etc and a board for current events, job postings, and such. That long window in the top left is actually my classroom! The door in theback leads out into the hallway where the bathrooms and elevators are to exit. And the 2 computers come in handy for school work and when I don't bring in my laptop. And that's the full tour of our staff area! I'll have ot get a picture in the other direction, as it's all the books we use to teach and our cubbies for our bags. It's a neat little area. I'd get pictures of the front, but the counsellors are always workin so hard I don't wanna disturb them to take their picture *L*

So, I was shopping the other day and I saw this velcro dartboard game and a mini basketball net! Now, on our 2 hour break and 10 min breaks inbetween classes we don't have to sit and stare at each other anymore! It's game time for the teachers *L* It kinda gets our mind off of the shitheads on the other side of the wall! hehehe I'm apparently the "favorite" teacher now for buying these.

Here's a nicer picture of my classroom. I have stuff on the walls now and it actually looks like a taught in class! There's pictures of aliens on the left from my young kids, and paragraphs about where on earth my older class would love to go to and why.....Straight ahead is of course a map of the world and surrounding it is posters of sports from around the world from my older kids. I didn't want to teach them any more grammar, so they got to make posters...boy am I nice some days *L* The purple poster on the far left is of hockey in Canada. I gave it to these boys that really appreciated drawing it! It turned out pretty good.

Getting my first package from home this week made me almost crap myself (as you can see!) I was so excited that i couldn't help but take pictures of myself with it hehehe This was the best feeling ever.....and I probably won't be feeling it for a VERY long time as it cost over $200 to ship to me!! WOWZERS...