Historic Day

Today I watched Barack Obama take the oath of office and become the 44th president of the United States.  The reporters are frequently calling it the beginning of a new era.  Well, I'm hoping that today is a beginning of a new era of the sub system!  And if I continue to get jobs, I'd be happy to give Obama all the credit! :)

Anyways, I was actually watching the inauguration this morning and had resigned myself to not having a job again.  When right before the prayer my phone started ringing!  (A sound I have not heard for a long long time!)  It was the sub system (which has not called me since the beginning of December!)  The job I was given was a morning half-day, but I was just so grateful to get anything!  The down side was that the job was supposed to start at 8....it was currently 8:45.  So obviously, I was a little late!  The school is also on the complete other end of town.  So by the time I got dressed, grabbed my stuff, set the DVR to tape the rest of the inauguration coverage, drove across town, and found a parking space, it was about 9:15.  

I was supposed to be subbing in a fifth grade, but that class was soon to have PE and the office wanted me to go cover for a 3rd grade class while my class was covered because the sub for the 3rd grade wasn't there yet.  They were trying to figure out where the wanted me, when and such for quite a while before they finally decided to just have me stay with the 3rd graders (since they needed a sub in that room right away) and they'd send the other sub to the 5th grade (since they didn't need to sub there for about 30 minutes).  The kids were watching Obama give his speech at this point, so I had a minute to look over the plans and get instructions from the other 3rd grade teachers.

After the end of Obama's speech, the 3rd grade classes rotated to new rooms.  At this point I read a book to the new group called, So You Want to be President?  This took the whole time (we actually didn't even finish the book) and then we switched classes again!  And so I read the book to the new group!  After this my original class came back, and I immediately lined them up for PE, which an assistant took them to.  I read while I waited for the teacher to come back, and she gave me a big stack of papers she needed cut in two.  After I did that I was done for the day!  Pretty nice start to the week!