Is it vacation yet?

Even though today wasn't a teaching day, it was just as exhausting, if not more exhausting.

Because of impending budget cuts and layoffs, the students started signing up for classes today, earlier than anticipated. Teachers were informed of this at the last minute, so no one really had any idea what was going on today. We knew that the day started with a whole school assembly, so we all headed to the gym, where the teachers were given packets of information for their advisees. Then, as an advisee group, the students went around to different classrooms to hear the different departments talk about their course offerings for next year. This meant that the English department stayed in the library for the duration, and then talked about the course offerings ten times. After about the third time, it started to get repetitive and boring, but because I wasn't required to say anything, I mostly tuned out.

After the students finished going through the rotations, we had a 30 min. lunch break, followed by a 30 min. advisory period where students were able to finish signing up for their classes. Then, there was a whole school pep rally that is supposed to get students excited for winter carnival which is happening next week. The pep rally was actually quite well done, though it was mostly led by one of the teachers from South Campus. There's not anything wrong with that, I'm just used to pep rallies and other similar activities being student led, so it was a different experience for me. Once the pep rally was finished, the school broke into different classes to start planning for the winter carnival activities. H is class advisor to the freshmen, but she left early, so along with the other freshmen teachers and the freshmen class president, I helped to explain winter carnival and survey class participation interest. The day finally ended with another school assembly and students getting ice cream.

While planning for winter carnival with the freshman class, we were talking about one of the activities where students raise money to duct tape a teacher to the wall. One of the students (not one of mine) said that they should duct tape me to the wall. I'm not sure whether I should take this as a compliment or not!