Where do I go? oh you don't know?

I knew this would happen the second I started one of these things. It's been almost 2 months since my first entry, I'm just really bad about being motivated to write about my life. I started my life as a College Guide today at Tunstall High School in Dry Fork, VA, which has really prompted me to make an entry, so this entry will primarily be about today and I'll fill everyone in on the end of my summer later, for whoever is out there reading this.

So I woke up this morning all excited and nervous to start my first day. Despite the renovations at both of my high schools I tried to start my day off on a good foot. I woke up on time, got a nice shower, emerged from the bathroom with a freshly brewed pot of coffee I bought from Disney World (it really was magical). I then made waffles and packed my bag and headed out for the drive to Tunstall. It was an interesting drive around Danville, and the closer I got the more things started to click with the profile I read about the HS. It has some low-income students and also has a large section of more wealthy kids that don't really need our program. This really set in when I was driving toward the school by some really gorgeous houses on lage plots of land, but slowly the landscape started to incorporate some, let's say less gorgeous houses.

I finally pull into he parking lot and walk through the front doors into a chaotic hallway with a sign pointing to the temporary main & guidance offices. keep in mind that open house is thurs and school opens next monday. I immediatly lose confidence in knowing I will have an office. That was cemented when I saw that all of administration has been 'squatting', for lack of a better term, in a set of connecting classrooms. To top off not having an office/ no one knowing where I'll have space to work, the county is using a new data system/ the renovations have made it hard to have too many internet connections so I couldn't even get print-outs of student information.

After a two-hour faculty meeting where the principal remembers halfway through (an hour after the introductions of new staff/faculty) that she forgot to introduce me. I then spent lunch with the 3 guidance counselors where Beth bought my lunch, that was probably the highlight of my day, the not paying for lunch; lunch itself only brought to life the politics of school I've heard about all summer, the women just gossiped the whole hour, but I kind of agree with what they were saying thus far, just b/c the principal doesn't want the College Guide Program in her school.

I spent an hour back at school attempting to research some stuff on some colleges for a college of the week board Beth and I are doing. I could only handle it for an hour til I left when I could. I just couldn't work in that place and had just been too stressed.

Tomorrow I start my first day at Dan River High School, where I can only expect worse. Tunstall is supposedly the farthest along in the renovation process, and my only contact with the principal has been me leaving voice mails and an email to only receive a one sentence reply and no returned calls. The school is only about 5 -1o mins up the road from my new apartment, which is much better than the 30min drive to Tunstall. Hopefully it won't be as bad as I'm expecting tomorrow, and hopefully they'll find a space for me to work, it's just hard to stay positive with low morale and a feeling of being a pest at the moment. Hopefully things will get better once the kids start coming. I just hope for their sake the building is inhabitable.