Well the ball is really rolling now. The staff is back at school officially next Thursday and our students follow on Sept. 4. With my new role as department coordinator I'll be at school every day from now until the first day of classes. The excitement is definetly growing, but so is the list of things to do.
I think its safe to say that we won't be completely unpacked come day one, but we expected that. I've gotten both of my classrooms as setup as I'm able to and now I'm just busy planning and organizing. There have been a few bumps in the road. Today I found out that my fashions studies room will not be outfitted with a projector. I guess the decision was made that I didn't need one...I'm not so sure about the logic behind that since I do have to present "notes" at the start of the semester. I'm also not sure if the additional machines and equipment were ordered for fashion studies. When we did the class sizes in June we planned for 24 students in fashion studies with the understanding that I would have four new machines in addition to the 20 I already have. It doesn't look like that happened so I'm hoping this will be rectified quickly so each of my students has a sewing machine.
It's also been interesting because our school was not built with air conditioning (this is a new government thing I guess). Our building has air circulation but do to construction in our drama theatre they haven't been able to turn it on upstairs because of a circuit overload (they are fixing this right now).So this means that right now our upstairs labs are swealtering (~27 degrees celcius). It's like working in a sauna (maybe it'll help me lose some weight lol). Hopefully its fixed soon so we're not dying on the first day of classes.
My time today was spent sending emails and talking to admin trying to figure out where items are and when other things are arriving.
Needless to say its been hectic but things are happening and we'll be ready to teach day one regardless of weather or not we're "ready".
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