Week One: COMPLETE!

[Disclaimer: getting the blog designed is in the works...bear with me for now]

This past month has been a whirlwind of work, travel and preparing for this new season of life in the Land of OZ!  The past week has been even more chaotic--unpacking and acclimating to life in a new part of the country.

As many of you know, on July 1, I was offered a Social Studies teaching position at South Middle School.  [Obviously] I accepted and it was off to Liberal!  Liberal is definitely an interesting place.  I think Paul Larkin, our HR director, expresses it best when he says, “There’s not a whole lot going on in Liberal, but it’s a great community to be part of.”  This has proven to be more than true on both counts.  As much as I hate being away from the city, I absolutely LOVE the people and school district.

Per usual, it took me two-seconds to make new friends.  I was also lucky to have connected with a handful of teachers from my new school when I was down visiting mid-July.  Most of the new teachers are from the north-midwest: Michigan and Ohio.  There are a few from Kansas and some from California and the Southeast coast too.  It’s fun to experience being new in town with so many other people.

Alright, I don’t want to bore you with details and I have to be to work soon, but I wanted to get this started.  More updates to come soon

Because I was supposed to start this blog last week, I’ll try to give a brief synopsis of the past week:

July 30-August1

Load car and trailer.

Drive to Liberal.

Unload car and trailer.

Setup house.

August 2

South Middle School teacher luncheon: Our principal organized a lunch in at Vargas (most amazing Mexican place ever!), so all of the new teachers could meet before we started new teacher orientation.  The South Middle School staff has really stood out in the district making extra effort in welcoming the new teachers to Liberal!

August 3

New Teacher Orientation: Just the usual “Welcome to the District.”

This weekend we took some time to relax before the whole district was back to work today