I was playing on Google Earth, and decided to show you my school. Where the School pushpin is, that is my portable. There are two more behind mine, two more behind the one across from mine, and a whole bunch more in the empty space. The baseball field is much smaller now! But now you can see how far I go to pick up my kids each morning and after lunch’s recess, how far I have to walk them to the cafeteria, where the bathroom trailer is (it wasn’t there then), library, school office, and SFA room. The SFA room matters because I have to lug tubs of books all the way over and back for my SFA class. Now we’re on a six day cycle, so I lug every six days instead of every five. As you can see, I get a lot of walking in!
I started carpooling, either last week or the week before. I’m not sure if I mentioned that or not. But it was too stressful to keep driving in the right lane so I could pull over if the car died, and worrying about if I’d make it to work and then make it home each day. I ride with a special ed teacher (the one who was in charge of the after-school English program I helped teach last year) and a third grade teacher (the one who I worked together with on some writing projects last year). So we go into work one day this week, and the special ed teacher discovered that someone had broken her classroom windows and bombed the room with a fire extinguisher. Our portables have metal grates over the windows (the one at the window fire exit is removable) so that isn’t something we worry about (not that we don’t have other issues, but it’d take like an ice pick and heavy rock banging against it to get at our windows). And yet there’s no surprise. These things happen somewhat regularly! So they are talking about (finally!) putting in security cameras.
