C is for conference, that's good enough for me

Did you spend all day wondering just exactly how Karen's day was going, what exactly what she was doing, learning, seeing..? Well, you probably only did if you are my Mom (Hi Mom!) but I'll let the rest of ya'll know too.

Got up nice and early *grumbles* to straighten my hair, put on professional clothes, make-up..you know, to look like a real person. I get down to the conference room and apparently I did not get the memo that you can wear TRACK PANTS to this conference...so tomorrow I figure I'll just wear my jammies. So I eat some mediocre breakfast (but it was free!) and pick up my conference package including my name tag:

(Soooo official!)

And also picked up a free mug, crapload of pens, a binder, an agenda and notepad. I have to be honest, I was fairly excited about all of this. The conference was....conferency (read: long, relatively boring except when I got to interact with other teachers) but I did learn some and got a free lunch. FREE!

So, here comes THE MOST EXCITING PART OF THE DAY! where I got a random cheque for $221.40 to reimburse me for the food that the hotel provided us with anyways. I don't get it, but frankly I don't want to get it. So I took my cool $221.40 with me to walmart and along with other borrowed and pay advance money bought a crapload of stuff for up north. I also bought a bunch of food which gets flown up by a freight line.



So it was a very long day of running around, but I have managed to meet some really awesome people I will be working with. My boss (the principal at the school) is pretty much the nicest lady ever. She and her daughter drove me around the city, waited with me while I shopped and are driving me to drop off my freight tomorrow. I have also met the other high school teachers as well as some of the elementary and they seem like they will be both awesome to work with and hang out with during free time (I'm making it sound kinda like prison here..not intended!)

All in all it was a very good day, and I think I am even starting to look the part of teacher. I thought this so much so, that I took pictures of myself before I left this morning, because I thought I might look so frazzled in two weeks that all the professionalism would be gone ;) Also, I got a pretty good haircut.





Acting like a big person all day is tiring, so I am off to bed!