Moving to a New Building

Its been in the works since I started teaching with our school district, and in September our school will be moving to a new, state of the art, building. We are retaining the name so its a replacement school rather than a brand new school. I thought that it might be a good idea to share some of the ups and downs of the whole process.
For the longest time the "move" didn't really affect me because it was so far away and I wasn't involved in  the process. That all changed over the last 10 months.
To say that I'm a bit stressed and anxious for the fall would be an understatement. There's just so much left to do. We started packing our stuff  towards the end of May and we needed to be done at our old building before the end of the school year. For me this part wasn't so bad because I've only been there for 5.5 years so I hadn't had much time to accumulate stuff. (Although I did accumulate ;) ). The teachers who have been at our school longer clearly had a much larger job than I did.
The last two weeks of the school year, while students were writing exams, was open to unpacking at the new building. Unfortunately there is still a lot of construction going on at the new place so it meant that we couldn't get a whole lot done. To make matters worse I have two classrooms to unpack and setup, my lab, and my fashions room. Fortunately I managed to unpack 90% of my science lab so that's one thing off my plate. Unfortunately I could do nothing in the fashions room because the furniture won't be installed until sometime this month. Needless to say I will be at school early this year, probably mid-August, to get everything ready.
It's going to be crazy, but I am beyond excited to teach in this new facility. I think moving affords us so many opportunities to do great things.
I'll have more posts in the coming weeks to fill you in on the "fun"