Tonight is the first meeting for the fall apprenticeships.  I am kind of not looking forward to this, but only because the schedule I'm already on is pretty crazy.  I have to be at the school by 7:05am, but I usually leave the house at 6 and arrive around 6:30am.  This gives me time to check emails, and talk to Kris about the upcoming day.

The school day goes until 2:30, and then we are supposed to be staying until 5:00pm every night, except for Friday, when we get to leave at dismissal (2:30).  How many hours is that?  50 hours.  And that would be OK, except Tuesday nights I'm in grad classes until 10pm.  So then there's study time for each of those two classes, which amounts to about ten hours a week each.  Suddenly I'm up at 70 hours a week.

On top of that schedule, tonight's meeting goes 5:30-7:30, and then tomorrow night's open house is 5:30-7:30.  I'm feeling pretty seriously run down just thinking about the upcoming year.  What the hell is going to happen when I have to be planning lessons next semester?

OK - Happy thoughts.  Happy thoughts.

My main apprenticeship is with NVBots, and is focused on 3D printing and design.  Should be pretty exciting.  Plus, my citizen teachers (CTs) have done this program a few times here, so I think it may go fairly smoothly.  The vast majority of what I'm supposed to be doing here is unclear to me at this time.  I think I'm supposed to be making sure the CTs know how to teach the material to middle schoolers.  I really wish we could have some of the 7th and 8th graders from the looping team participating in this class... it may be a bit much for 6th graders, but then again, the class seems to have a big focus on 3D design, and these kids probably have a lot of gaming experience that will help them with the design software.

Well.... here we go.

Happy thoughts....
Happy thoughts....