Week One

Well, I've completed my first week of school and I've started most fall things worth telling about, so here goes:

My classes look pretty good. I'm taking six of them, but one is a 9-month independent study course on magazine writing and the other is that education one that meets 5 times a semester so it's really only four. They are as follows: public speaking (I thought it would be helpful, but it's not required so I'm taking it pass/fail), creative writing (actually, intermediate literary non-fiction), service learning in the Latino community (my last Spanish course!) and Brit Lit II (my last literature survey course!). I'll tell you more about them as I go, of course.

I also started working for the family I'm going to nanny for a couple times a week while the mom runs errands. They have a 5 month old baby girl named Paloma who is very sweet and easygoing. Their puppy, Monte, is actually more of a handful (adult-sized dog with puppy manners=bad news when you're holding a baby). But I think it's going to be a good arrangement.

I haven't set up my classroom hours at Emerson school yet, but I sent the volunteer coordinator an e-mail today and I hope to hear back soon. They have very odd school hours for a K-8 school (7:30-1:45) so I might end up doing my hours on Wednesday morning instead of Tuesday and Thursday afternoons like I had planned. We shall see.

Otherwise, the weather was horrifically hot this week until today, when it finally felt Septemberish. I got caught in the monsoon last night on the way home from work, which was refreshing but a little scary because the windshield on the bus kept fogging up and the bus driver seemed more confused by it than anything else. It was amusing to see passenger after passenger board the bus dripping and desperate, though.

Anyway, tomorrow we're doing a retreat/training for middle school Core Team at church, so I'm going to start thinking about sleeping.