And It Begins...5:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

This morning began not bright and early but in the dark of the morning hours. I clenched my eyes shut as I heard my first alarm go off at 5:00 a.m. and my second alarm go off at 5:10...it was time for me to pull myself out of bed and get in the shower. I think I was half asleep as I was showering but I tell you the truth that it was the only things that woke me up. After I got out of the shower I woke up my roommate and we grabbed our handy dandy lunch boxes that are basically these blue cooler with Teach For America on them and walked down in our pajamas to the West Servery were we went through a line to fill up our lunch boxes with an ice pack, an entree, a side, three snacks, and a drink. After that we went through the breakfast line and carried it all back up to our room so that we could eat and get ready for our first day at school at the same time. I wore a cute black dress with a peach cardigan and flats. I had to be at the bus stop ready to board the yellow school bus at 6:30 on the dot. Don't worry I was on time and ready to go Patrick Henry Middle School. When we got there the school was not as bad as I was expecting and we spent the rest of the day in what we call "sessions" learning about various things we would have to do such as lesson plans, setting goals for our students, teaching techniques etc. I have been assigned for the next five weeks to teach 8th grade English. Patrick Henry Middle School is expecting 1100 students for summer school starting tomorrow. I won't begin teaching until Thursday morning but I am already nervous. There are four different surrounding middle schools that will be attending summer school and we were told that for safety reasons all teachers must be in the hall ways while students change classes because most of the schools are rivals and they want to prevent any type of violence or misbehavior. Lets just say it is going to be interesting :). My school was the last school to make it back to Rice Campus around 5:30 and then we had to grab dinner and go to opening ceremonies. It was fun and we had lots of pump up chants to scream. Now I have some work to complete before tomorrow morning and also have to study for my TEXES exam. I'm running on low energy so pray I feel refreshed tomorrow morning...I will be waking up at 5:00.
Love yall,
Molly