Moorhead MS...holla!

Well, I have my placement! We got an e-mail last Monday night saying placements would be out on Wednesday...WTF, we have to wait TWO days?! It was so hard to concentrate on lesson plans thinking about how we would find out our location in mere hours. Anyway, of course placements are not going to be put in our mailboxes by 6 a.m. so we had to wait until after school.

The other girls from the Delta (who also teach at Browning) and I sat in the very front of the first of our two buses that afternoon. Basically, the moment we stopped at Moody Towers we were running to the mailroom (okay, not quite but close). Well, we got our placements and I found out which school I was at and in what district. The best part was that they had included a map of all the counties and who was placed there, therefore, we didn't have to ask everyone where they were. So, for the next two years I will be teaching in Moorhead, Mississippi which is as far south-east I could possibly be in the Delta. My school is 100% african american and 100% free/reduced price breakfast and lunch. This also means being about 88 miles from Aunt Gretchen and Uncle Mike, AMAZING! I could have ended up something like 4 hours away from them. I was high.on.life. at that moment! I made a few phone calls before I had a meeting with a member of the Delta professional staff. I kept breaking out into a huge smile during the meeting and could only tell her that I was just so excited! Pretty sure she left that meeting thinking I was a HUGE dork! Oh well, I'm hired!

On Friday, another girl in my CMA group and I decided we would be roommates. She is teaching in the town next to Moorhead. Since there are only two corps members placed in Moorhead (the other one went to Gustavus, what?!) and not a lot of people/towns around me, I was a little nervous. However, she rocks, is totally laid back, was equally as nervous about what she was going to do for a roommate, and I feel like everything is working out the way it should. We have not quite decided what town we are going to live in yet, it is probably between Indianola and Ruleville. Lastly, the kicker in this entire placement situation...I am at the same school as my CMA and the same grade-level. We are the only two Kindergarten teachers in the school-she is going to be so sick of me. To add to this circle of connections...Lois, my future roommate, is from Melbourne, FL...the random beach that we decided to visit on our spring break trip to Florida this past March. Smallllllllll world!

So, I slept most of the day yesterday, which could have helped/hindered my bad mood. But I have all of my lesson plans written for the week, some revisions needed. I started my lesson plans for our last week already. I made a newsletter template for my class in Mississippi. I'm finally getting this blog sent out to people so I don't look like I've fallen off the face of the earth. Life is good and I'm lovin' it!

Headed to the pool...I like to catch up on my phone calls there! Holla :)