Back to Reality

I'm now nicely settled back in Palm Springs and realizing that I've been a terrible blogger!! So much has happened since my last blog...not sure where to begin. I guess I'll just start off with brief recap of my week and then this weekend I'll play catch up. Although the holidays were great with all the family and friends, I have to say the California weather was nice to come back to. The past few weeks were a bit chilly so I busted out my wool coats for the morning and evening. The top of the mountains have a bit of snow!! It has been in the forties in the morning, but luckily by afternoon the seventies warm things up.

School has been good especially since we haven't had a full week yet. All these 4 day weeks make the time fly by. This coming week we have a 2 days of Professional Development too so no school those days either. I had my final evaluation this week for the observations my administrator does. I recieved all 3s (which is the highest) and one 2 in the assessment category because he wasn't able to observe this in my quick 40 minute period. I feel really good about this and just the confidence boost of being told that I'm doing a good job is uplifting. Also, my administrator has really helped to clear up some of the issues I was having in my 5th period class. I feel much more comfortable in there now that the kids know I know what is going on.

Today I got my test scores back from the CTEL that I took in December. I passed Modules 2 and 3, but not Module 1. I am pretty happy with this though since it was difficult and most people don't even pass 2 out of the 3 their first time. I will just have to take that last one in June again.

As for other stuff...friends here are good, I'll blog about last weekend's trip to San Diego and such tomorrow. I've been a "6 day a weeker"at the gym for the past three weeks. I've started going to some of the classes and I really love them. I'm a regular at the TKB (kickboxing) class on Mondays and Wednesdays, and Saturday I do the Step class. I'm still working with my trainer and doing my usual 4mi run...which is so great with my new shoes...they are like pillows for my feet! I tried a spinning class this week and OMG I thought I was going to die. Great workout, but whoa that was a class and a half!

I guess that sums things up for now. I'm back to the old grind...vacation is officially over!