Fourth Year Out- Hello 2007

It's the third week of the holidays and I almost have my entire first term planned for each of my subjects. Something is wrong. I never normally do any preparation until at least the weekend before school goes back. This is the change I have been sensing in myself lately. Let me divulge...

At the end of Term 4, 06 instead of winding down as most people were doing, I was winding up (co-ordinating the End of Year Activities). In all this pandemonium -and believe me, that's excatly what it was- though well co-ordinated pandemonium :) - I felt a wave of preparation start to wash over me that I had never felt before. I was ready and excited for 2007 AND IT WAS STILL TERM 4! Some of my regular readers may have noted that I was not blogging at all in 2006. I can only attribute this to what I am calling the "Third Year CBF's". It mostly stemmed from the desire to spite my fellow team teacher (the third wheel, as I would like to call him), who made every possible attempt to undermine the whole point of team teaching. I think I will leave this long and very passionate story for another blog. All I can say is, because I was investing so much energy in not doing anything, just so that Third Wheel didn't get away with it exclusively, I started to feel like this in all areas of work... and so my blogs were postponed.

But I am back...
2007 looks set to be a surefire year. As someone who loves bullet points, here are a few that explain why 2007 is going to be so great for me:

• I'm getting married in June
• I have the cutest dog and she makes me so happy when I get home from work (and sometimes she comes to work with me)
• My fiance is going to be studying by Distance Ed too at Monash Gippsland- he's going to Uni for the first time to get his degree in Psychology
• The above bullet means we will be spending more time together in a state of parallell computer symbiosis in our study
• I have 2 Year 10 classes for the first time; English and Literature
• Year 10 Literature has never been offered at my school before so I got to write the course and choose some of the texts- I chose Stargate SG-1 for Sci-Fi which should be great!
• I finally understand what was going on in Wuthering Heights!! :) Thanks Sparknotes!
• My sister is having a baby in May
• My sister in law is having her baby right now- like seriously having contractions as I blog
• I'm working with SK, my best ever team teacher in the whole wide world
• She has a spa and says we can do some late night planning sessions there- Champagne included!
• In Term 2, the new learning centres are opening and they are going to be so great
• At the same time, my new Lunchtime Activities program "The Lunchbox" will be launched
• And on top of all this, my pay goes up again... gotta love this job in that sense.

So I have a lot to look forward to in 2007. I expect to be blogging more regularly and my reviewer at schools says I need to evaluate more so I will add evaluations in here too at times so that I can show them to him at my mid and end of year reviews.

Now, about that dumb skank my fiance is talking to online... death by cyberstabbing! he he!

M x