i have a group of work mates, we used to eat lunch together outside everyday, surf together, every couple fridays we would surf after work and then go get a couple of pints from my friend Patrick down at the local brew house, its been six months since we've done that,
this summer we decided with the surf being often quite dismal that we would meet once a week and golf at a local executive course so it only take about 2/12 to 3 hours,, its all about bustin each others balls, having a couple beers and laughing and having a good walk ruined, aka golf.
it has really been a lot of fun and I suck at golf but its nice to see my mates and get out of the house....
now i'm starting to get a little stressed as we are gearing up to start online school here in a couple weeks, i've been taking all sorts of mini classes trying to learn all the technology to teach every day live with synchronous and asynchronous instruction. we are going to be live with the class around 50% of the time for each period so it is gonna be a ton of work recreating all my live in person lessons to online instruction (my dynamic personality doesn't go over as well on a screen)lol.... starting the school year not knowing any of the 175 students is going to make it really tough compared to last year where the students and i knew each other too, one of my long colleagues just up and quit, she couldn't handle the changeover, another colleague is so bummed about not teaching in person they tried to get a long term sub for the online quarter but the d.o. said no. part of the problem was our district waited until the last moment to finally decide that we aren't going back to school to start the year so we didn't clear guidance as to how to prepare our courses, we are still waiting to find out how we are supposed to take attendance and what materials we will have available to the students etc, they keep saying and by mid September and October the new google classroom features you need will be available, great thats 3 weeks into it at least.
hey Jamesgang where is your garbage can? lol