What a week!

Well Student Teaching is officially over. How strange...
Here is a listing of this week's events: Pre-cursor: it's been quite a week...
1) Monday I caught a 24 bug/virus thing. I had to teach Monday because my mentor teacher was giving TCAP. I left at 1:30 because I could not physically take it anymore. I felt so awful and had since about 6:30 a.m. I got home and slept solid for 4 hours, woke up for about 2, and went right back to sleep until 6:10 the next morning. I felt much better so I concluded that it must have a been a bug or something.
2) Tuesday I had my final evaluation meeting, a meeting with the principal, and financial aid exit counseling. Considering I had been very sick the day before, this was pretty ambitious for Tuesday. The final evaluation went pretty well. I got an A for this placement :)  The meeting with the principal was not so great. Well the meeting was fine; just not the information I received. I have mentioned that Metro is putting a freeze on new hires until the end of June. They are displacing over 400 current teachers. These teachers are required to be rehired within Metro before any one else can be hired. This basically means that once you're hired into the system, you can't be fired. You can be moved to another school but you have to be rehired if you're displaced. Or you have tenure and can't be touched. That's a dumb way to do things if you ask me. How on earth do you get rid of bad teachers? You can't. They just get moved to a different school if you're lucky enough to get them out of yours. Again, if you're good at your job, you have nothing to worry about. Enough of that tangent though. So after the displaced teachers are rehired, then transfers within district and Teach for America people get placed. Don't even get me started on that. Actually if you want to hear my take on that, I'll be glad to share from an enlightened and informed point of view. So that means that any open jobs go 1st to displaced teachers, 2nd to transfers and Teach for America, and finally to new hires. I would be considered a New hire. Keep in mind that there are 400+ displaced teachers. That's a pretty long list to be at the bottom of. All of this to say that the principal told me to keep my head up; having my ELL certification would help me; and be patient because something will open up- it may be August but it will open up.
3) Wednesday I surprise subbed for a 3rd grade teacher who forgot to put in for a sub. The principal found me that morning on my way to class and told me he would probably send me down there. Good thing I got my sub certification! It made for a long day though. I taught all morning in 1st grade; when they went to lunch, I went to 3rd grade and had lunch an hour later. Third grade is very different. Especially when most of the boys in the class have ADD/ADHD, behavior problems, and all other kinds of craziness. What a day! Oh and that morning I woke up late because the power was off.
4) Wednesday night my throat was still hurting and I was beginning to lose my voice. I also found out, late that night and in not so pleasant of a way, that I have to move by May 15. No longer May 31. She actually was trying to get me out by May 1. May 1 is very soon. There's no way. So I was able to negotiate a little bit. That made for a pretty stressful event.
5) Thursday I woke up and discovered that my alarm clock had re-set itself when the power came back on to be 10 minutes slow. So I was running 10 minutes late. Thankfully I get to school pretty early so it wasn't a problem but it was pretty irritating. It was my last day of student teaching- a bittersweet experience. We had a fun day, took lots of pictures, and had an Easter Egg "Hunt"/ Scramble. I'll post pictures soon!
It's hard to believe student teaching is over. Everything I've been working towards for 4 years is over. I have my exit presentation Monday, assuming my voice comes back. I've got babysitting interviews and apartment hunts to conduct and then graduation will be upon us! Counting down to May 7!! :)
What a week!