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This edition of Lyndsey's Life will not have any pictures because unfortunately I cannot access any of my recent pictures right now. I've switched to a new Mac and not everything is transferring.

So I'm sitting here at my desk in the teacher workroom, staring at how junky and cluttered my desk is already...glad that we're using laptops exclusively and I don't have to have a desktop! TCIS middle school is now a Mac division - although the kinks that come with switching platforms are a nightmare and a headache and a half. Nobody can seem to print or project or access network files...the list goes on. Ahh, the joys of a new school year. :)

I have a lot of work to do before students come on Monday. However, as my principal told me yesterday, everything changes and calms down once they arrive. Somehow certain things minimalize when you finally get into the routine. Right now, I feel like I have a week's worth of work I'm trying to do today and tomorrow. I'm just nervous about making sure I have the routines, procedures, and overviews in my head so kids can start out the year knowing what to expect from me and in my class. 2nd year teaching still isn't experienced enough to know the best way to start. But hey! At least I'm not a first year teacher anymore! I know more than last year!

It's great to be back with these people. To be surrounded by so many different accents and backgrounds and personalities. Everybody definitely just jumps right back in. Only Anna isn't in yet. She is in Switzerland till tomorrow finishing a grad course. And with Erin Curley on the same campus, life is beautiful! She is about as overwhelmed as I am with the schedule RAs have the first weekend but things will settle for her too. She and I have so many things we want to do together here - it's hard to remember that we have basically opposite schedules - whenever I'm off, she's on, and vice versa! It'll be interesting.

I'm determined to do so many more things this year than I did last year. Learn the bus system, go to the gym and run regularly, learn some Korean, stay up and preferably OUT past 8pm on most nights, start developing a MS dance and drama ministry team (yikes! out of my league), write lots - of anything and everything, and hopefully cook some more, although it really is just too easy and cheap to eat out! And Koreans can make Korean food so much better than I can.

10am, Saturday morning. I'm buckling down to work. Peace out.