We are now in the city Vannes with about 55,000 people and it seems just right. This is an old city and looks nothing like we have at home. I think I could wander the cobble stone streets forever. It feels so very different here. We have been in France for one week today and still have 10 more days. It will be nice to go home after that, but it has been an amazing experience.
On to school related stuff. So the week before school ended our school had a few changes. One amazing teacher decided to become an interventionist within the district. One awesome teacher within the building moved from second grade to third to take that position. So this left a second grade position open. There had been other openings within our district and even building, but none had seemed just right. I knew I wanted to stay in the same building and teach K-2. Well, well a second grade position was now open, but I hated the idea of leaving the resource room. I really love working with my students. However, I knew that my heart is really in the classroom and I decided to go for it (expecting that someone else would swoop in and take it). Right before I got on the plane for France I checked my email and there it was....an email from my principal offering me the second grade position.
You want to talk about feeling like things are crazy well the last week of school had been crazy busy. School had ended on June 16 for Shane and I and Josh was done on June 17. Then on June 18 we are sitting in an airport getting ready to fly to another country for 19 days and I am being offered what I wanted, which is to go back into the classroom. I felt like my head was swimming and I took about 3 minutes to think about it and then I responded and told the principal that I would love to accept the second grade position. Yay me!!
So while I have been enjoying everything about France I have also been planning in my head how I am going to make my classroom and the year awesome!! So much to do when I get back, clean out my stuff from my resource room and get my new room ready, but I am going to enjoy every liter of France I can while I am here.
Oh and that reminds me....I now need a new name for my blog. I have had one suggestion so far, "There's no place like Mrs.Gower's room" which I like, but I am looking for a few more suggestions before I change it. Thanks and au revoir!!
~Erica
