I had my first day of supply teaching today. It was too easy, and now I fear I'm ruined for when I get called in to teach like, grade 8 math or something. I had 2 advanced English classes, one regular English, and a Theatre Arts class. Not too shabby. But the fun parts of the day weren't teaching. One student came into class a little early to ask to be excused to work on a project for another class. I said sure, and when I asked him his name I realized that he's the little brother of a good friend of mine from high school. Pretty neat. I haven't talked to her really since high school, which is pretty crappy I'll admit, but her brother tells me that she's back in town now, for next week anyway, so I think I'll give her a shout. How exactly does one go about re-initiating contact with someone after a break of 5 years? Especially when I know she's leaving in like a week for Toronto. Interesting. The other fun part of the day was that my HS art teacher is now the art teacher where I was supplying, and he recognized me. I would have recognized him too, he looks just the same, but I wasn't really expecting to see anyone I knew there, and wasn't paying attention. Anyway, so that was pretty cool; all in all a good day. Plus, they pay me. hehe.
Also, in other good news, my summer job has offered me a position for 6 months or so, and they'll work around my school schedule, and if something comes up teaching wise, they'll let me go to it. Pretty awesome, I think. They had offered me a position at the end of the summer, but I wouldn't have been able to supply, because it was all day shifts. This one is evenings and weekends, and has a higher pay rate to boot, so I'm pretty stoked. It'll start sometime in the next couple of weeks. I haven't told Grant, but I'm sure he'll be relieved, he worries more than I do about my silly line of credit. My feeling is, I don't have loans to pay off, and that's what lines of credit are FOR! lol...but it will be nice to not have to worry about everything financial. Plus, I LOVED my summer job, so it's a win win win situation. I love good news. Now, I'm just waiting to win the lottery, and that'll pretty much fulfil my expectations for now!