Class Switch

Hey everyone, I know it has been a very long time since I last updated this blog, but here goes...

This is a post I had started writing during my first week, but never finished, yet I am putting it in anyway:

So as y'all know, I have been placed in East Detroit High School in Eastpointe. The school is HUGE, not even exaggerating at all. I have been lost inside that place more times than I can count, but getting lost did help me find my way around much better than I thought it would. School started on Tuesday with registration and a half day of classes. Registration was pretty much unorganized chaos, which as you can imagine, was just chaos! Once that was finally over, which took most of the half-day, classes seemed to be over. We stayed in school until about 3:00pm to work on some things as well as help out the 9th grade teachers with last minute things. Wednesday was our first true day in class, working with students, and explaining to them what City Year is! Unfortunately, there was not much work to do because teachers were going over the syllabi for their respective classes, but that meant there was plenty of time to interact with students and just get to know them. The kids are super cool!!! It has only been a few days and they are already so receptive to us, it's awesome!

I have been working for the last month or so making/creating this staff appreciation event for the 9th grade teachers that we work with, and now that it is almost here, I cannot wait until it is over. Luckily I have a great team of CMs that I work alongside, so I know we will be able to make it a success no matter what goes wrong.

Up until this point, I have been in a 9th grade English Foundations class, but tomorrow morning I will no longer be in that class. I am getting switched into a new 9th grade English class, where I will serve my final 9 months (or so I hope)! It will be a little weird to be a new kid in a class again, but on the plus side I know most of the kids in the class I am getting switched into. They are reading a different book than the class I was in though, so I am in a mad scramble to try to catch up in The Pigman, which is what this class is reading.

I will keep y'all posted with how my class switch goes, and how staff appreciation day goes! Here's hoping they both go well!