Overwhelmed

So I'm here in my GIGANTIC new classroom with no idea where to start. Part of me keeps thinking (hoping?) that this is all just a dream and I'll wake up and be back in college with no life again. But I know that isn't going to happen, so I just need to get started. I've been in new teacher orientation for the last few days. We have meetings in the morning, and in the afternoon we get to go work in our classrooms. Yesterday, the cold that I've been running from caught up with me, and I couldn't function. So I went to wal-mart and bought some drugs and went to sleep. But today I've been sitting in my classroom for 7 hours and just contemplating. Well, people keep coming in to talk to me, and I've been working on some curriculum things, but then I've been getting a little distracted. (I have this dang final to write that is due tomorrow at 5 pm---it's the LAST thing that I have to do for college... but I don't want to write it. Probably why I'm starting a new blog?) I need to buckle down and get started. But where to begin? Do I work on curriculum? Do I work on my discipline plan? What do I have to organize? What do I have to decorate? The last teacher left me a lot of things and I'm excited to go through it and make it my own.

My classroom is HUGE. I'm a FACS teacher--we do a lot of stuff. I have 4 kitchens, some computer stations, and 20+ sewing machines. Not to mention the desks and the SMART BOARD. Which is cool...except I don't know how to work it.

Ok. I just made a decision. I'm done posting tonight. I have to start this paper. That way I will be able to dedicate ALL my attention to my classroom tomorrow. Because I don't even get to work on my room on Friday--I have to go to my college graduation. Ah! If I think about it I stress. Time for me to just get to work.

~The Teacher