Friday, July 13, 2007
coaching the yellowjackets
so on monday colton offered me a job teaching math at the high school. and on tuesday, they called me back and asked me to coach their varsity volleyball team. i had said i was interested, and i wanted to do jv or the freshman team, or be the assistant coach, or something like that.
but no, they offered me the head coach position! of varsity! they want me to be in charge of the program cuz i’m staff!!!
so now i’m head coach!!!
it’s amazing!! when i first thought about not going back to grove, i couldn’t imagine it.... and i was dreading going to another school… and then as i was trying to find a place that i would be happy at, i visited colton hs and told my mom that if i got hired there to teach math and one class of volleyball, it would be the ideal “upgrade” from my then-current position at grove. it would be a wayyyy bigger school, yes, but i would get the chance to know some students on a more personal level because of being more involved. i could also potentially teach less classes and have less prep-work, instead of teaching 4 different math classes, a physics, an elective, and doing counseling/mentoring during lunch, all while planning and fundraising for a winterim. and so i while on the phone with my mom, i realized that changing schools could give me the opportunity to teach the same class of math four or five times a day and the opportunity to be involved with the volleyball team. and if i could be teaching algebra 2, then it would be all students who chose to be in that class, instead of teaching one that was required for graduation. less stress, more time, and more pay all rolled into one =)
and so when i got offered the job on monday, i accepted, but that was it… just teaching math. coolio.
then when they called me back on tuesday, i was a little bit apprehensive about taking the job, since it’s a big responsibility, but it is definitely a positive. and i accepted again.
now, if they could only assign me to teach algebra 2, i will have the “ideal” job that i described to my mom.
God has definitely been blessing me!