Surviving!
August 17, 2005
Actually I'm doing better than surviving.
First, my blood sugars are where they should be. In fact, I'm keeping a close eye to make sure they don't go too low during the day. My fasting blood sugars have been good the past two days -- 95 and 105. My after lunch blood sugars are also doing well, in fact, loads better than they were last year.
I even managed to get on the treadmill for 35 minutes yesterday.
I missed most of last week's workouts. First the cardio was way to long for me to do and work too. I should have shorten them a week early but I was hoping. I was doing over an hour a day on that schedule. I even missed the weight workouts but then again, I was moving boxes, walking the building searching for people, etc.
My weight is still going down, and I'm being very careful not to dehydrate again, though I don't drink as much at school as I do at home. Don't eat as much either.
My classes are interesting. The Algebra I repeater class size is stable. I did make one kid's day. He had already passed Algebra I AND Geometry, so was definately in the wrong class. On Monday, he told me, and I sent an email to his counselor. His counselor fixed the schedule and had it in my box at 7:45 am. I gave him his new schedule when he walked in my room and get him to the right class and teacher. The even better news, is that new teacher was my department chair, and she was thrilled that I had caught the error and got it fixed too. When I told her, I was actually bragging on the counselor, but every day we can have the kid in the actual right class, the better.
The ESL classes, however are not stable when it comes to class size. My 3rd and 4th period classes have almost doubled. I have most of the ESL students in 4th period because of the way their schedule works. They are with an ESL specialist for 3 class periods (I didn't KNOW this, but had seen their schedules before), and are with me 1 class period. So there is an opportunity for two different specialists to see them for 4th, but only one for 3rd and 5th.
The ESL kids are so very happy to be in the classroom. However, they are very shy for the most part and don't want to talk. The key, I'm learning, is to get silly myself. The more silly I am, the easier it is for them to try and make mistakes.