Fort Albany, Monday August 22, 2011

I’m off to my first day of work in Fort Albany. School doesn’t officially begin until Wednesday but we’ve been given two days to get settled into the school and set up our classrooms. I’m much more excited than I am nervous – there’ll be plenty of time for that come Wednesday!

It was lovely and my classroom is pretty sweet. The school itself is shaped like a goose – well it’s got a neck and head and the actual school building is shaped like a macaroni noodle/semicircle/wings. The Elementary is in one half and high school in the other. I was able to create a reading centre, a computer centre and kind of a science/art centre. The desks are set up in two ‘U’s and my desk is off to the side.

I asked the head maintenance guy who takes care of us teachers beautifully, if I could look at any other available units. Apparently #10 is open and another teacher highly recommended it with lots of essentials left over from the last teacher as well as a possible internet connection. He said he’d take me over to look at it tomorrow.

The principle and five of the remaining teachers arrived today, so we’re just waiting on one more who should be coming in tomorrow. As I’ve called Air Canada and my bags are definitely in Timmins, I can now reasonably hope that it’ll all be in tomorrow or the next day along with the straggler teacher ;)