Meetings, appointments, oh my!

The next five days will be filled with all sorts of appointments and meetings. I don't actually get into a classroom with students until Tuesday. I finally made contact with my cooperating teacher (CT). Mr. H suggested that I get to some meetings at the high school with the total staff. He seems like a neat guy thus far. Evidently he is a musician, so we will have some common ground. Another interesting thing is that he mentioned he taught with my university observer, Mr. S. That means that I might be able to get a leg up for dealing with his requirements. 

Here is a look at some of the pre-teaching activities that all of us have to do before we can start:

• Wednesday-Staff meeting. Not sure what will go on here, but I'm sure I'll be conspicuously out of place, more hopefully, completely ignored. 
• Thursday & Friday-Room prep with Mr. H. He mentioned we have "a lot of work to do", not sure what that means either. Most likely we will begin devising our plan of attack for the year. I will also have to go to the university to purchase our fabulous "student teacher handbook" that will give me all I need to know for this semester, and possibly the rest of my life...I need to confirm my TB test results, as well as establish my proof of professional liability insurance-$20 a year for insurance by joining a teacher's org. which gives me all the teaching magazines and junk mail I can handle!
• Saturday-This is my fingerprintin' day. My district requires an FBI background check now, which includes fingerprinting. The funny thing about this is that these fingerprint sessions are held for two hours, seemingly randomly throughout the state. The only places that have any appointments available are an hour away or so. My place? Grant's Restaurant in the chicken production capital of the state. Hot damn! Also, it costs $52.20, plus $15 in gas, plus $10 for lunch-I love the pop-up expenses of the education department. 
• Sunday-Nothing! This is a "me day". Perhaps I'll update on the last few days. 
• Monday-Six hours of tell all meetings at the university. Love the university meetings...not really. They are terrible. 
• Tuesday-First day of yours truly in the live classrooms... 

Currently Watching-Mens Olympic Volleyball

Currently Listening-The Escape Frame by the Escape Frame