First Day at Valor
Today was my first day at Valor Christian High School. I stayed up pretty late and got up pretty early to make sure I was ready. I got some little candy bars at King Soopers to use as rewards. Really it was to buy the students’ affection. It’s my first day at a new school, so I do what I gotta do.
Well, my first class period went pretty well. We got through all the material I prepared and I passed out enough candy to make them like me a little bit, I think. After class, I set the candy down on my table up front. Next to my projector. Next to the exhaust fan of my projector. The point of an exhaust fan on a projector is to move hot air out of the projector. Unfortunately it moved all the hot air right onto my M&M’s and Crunch bars. Guess what happened. Those M&M’s most certainly melted in their hands, not in their mouths.
It looked like there were enough chocolates to make it to the end of the day, so all wasn’t lost. After a free period and Forum (an all-school meeting, kind of like a chapel, but not), I met the students for Algebra 2. Things were going all right, I had some games planned to reinforce concepts and just as I got things ready to go, I reached for my bottle of water. The bottle of water that was sitting next to my laptop. The bottle of water that was sitting next to my laptop with the lid off. You see where this is going?
Well, the water not only hit my laptop, it hit all the paperwork I had put together to run the class. I had read enough articles about spilling liquid on a laptop to know to power down immediately, unplug and leave it open to dry. A kind-hearted senior ran and got some paper towels and helped to clean up the water all over my table.
I had some other good ideas to do in that class, but they kind of depended on the powerpoint stuff I had put together that was now drying on the window sill. My next class was deprived of my great materials on my computer as well, so we had to go old school and use the whiteboard.
After lunch, I checked my laptop and it appeared to be dry enough, so I powered it on and crossed my fingers. Everything seemed to work fine and I prepared for my last class, Geometry, which went off without a hitch.
All in all, the day could have gone better, and, it could have gone worse. I could’ve had a day like my wife’s. The students were really great, especially the Alg 2 kids that had to put up with my clumsiness. Valor is a great school to work at and I’m excited about getting past my first day.
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