1st Week Down

It's now been a week at my new school.  Chaos can hardly describe it, although it's not chaotic in the way you might think.  It's crazy because teachers are required to work 26 periods a week to be considered "full time", and this is a lot more than they had worked in the past.  As a consequence of this, they don't have time to plan or meet, so they're staying late after work to do so.  I haven't left before 3:30 at all this week, and I've been coming home to plan some more.  I feel like I'm doing something wrong to have to plan this much....

At any rate, the teachers are extremely nice and accommodating, and they are helping me a ton.  One teacher wants to take me clothes shopping and another wants to take me out to lunch next week.  Another teacher wants to show me the library and explain all the books to me.  They actually seem genuinely happy that I'm here, which is a HUGE improvement from my last job in the UAE when nobody wanted me around and they all thought I was Satan incarnate.  Maybe that's while I feel so compelled to plan compulsively--I want to go a good job because they're taking such good care of me.. Not sure.  Either way, here's some pictures I took last weekend as I was walking around town!

So green here!

I likes me some countryside.