Becoming Ms. Frizzle

I shouldn't be home (in Canyon) today. I should be in College Station living my life as I usually do. But someone had different plans for me today.

Sunday brought pain and heartache to my life, the likes of which I'd never experienced. So, I decided on Sunday that I would rearrange my schedule and work with my employers to take a short visit home to be loved on and get some R&R. I figured that since I was in the area I might as well let Amarillo ISD and Canyon ISD know that I was around for a few days if they wanted any face-to-face interviews. Lo and behold, I wound up with four interviews in two days!

This morning I met with the principal, vice principal, and science chair at Amarillo Area Center for Advanced Learning (AACAL for short). I fell in love. The school is different than any school I've ever seen. The students apply to the program and want to be there. Only math and science courses are taught (students spend one half of the day at another local high school for English, history, etc). Students are motivated and (hopefully) nerdy! Any wonder as to why I fell in love?

After my hour and a half long interview at AACAL I headed to a middle school which I didn't hate, but I also didn't love. I headed home with all my hopes in the AACAL basket feeling that God had shown me what he had in store for my life. Not an hour after my second interview I received a call from HR in Amarillo offering me the biology position at AACAL! Out of professional respect for Canyon ISD, (with whom I had a 2:00pm interview) I did not give a decision immediately. But after find out that Canyon had nothing to offer me, the decision practically made itself.

That being said, I will officially begin work as a freshman biology teacher at AACAL in Amarillo ISD in early August! God is good and his timing is weird.