My entire lunch period in the library is teen boys yelling at each other about Roblox. It's pretty hilarious. I'm severely outnumbered gender wise. But that's okay!
I haven't wrote here since April, and I find myself thinking about what has happened since then. I know a lot has, but MY MIND IS BLANK. Okay. Let me think.
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Alright, I have this room behind my desk, some kids think it's magic. But really all there is, is classroom novels, all types of paper, old yearbooks, all my weeded books waiting to be sorted, and so on. Before January, the place was just ridiculous. There were stuff in there from years ago which basically all went in the garbage. I wen't on a huge cleaning spree. The custodian and I came up with designs for new shelving and now we have so much space and it's so clean and nice and wonderful!!! With leftover wood from the old shelves, the custodian (who is the most amazing person in the world) built me new adult section shelves. I weeded through those and now I have more room for current books in September! Yay!
Basically in one year, I've gotten new desktops, laptops, couches and chairs, tables and a new paper room. I've shortened my desk to create more room back here, moved more shelves against the walls to create more hangout space (cue the gender outnumbering- the high school boys love it in here!) Weeded the non-fiction section twice which created more wall space, drawn, crafted, copied, laminated all the free wall space (it's so colourful in here) and ordered so many books for the library.
Recently, I've weeded almost 200 old, crummy, sticky, ripped books from the Elementary section (k-4) and I'm saving most of those for the Book Swap next year. Surprisingly, it was really fun and easy. Not too many books out of place. Funny story: every year, the student council has a fundraiser called the Wake-a-thon. It's just like 30 hour famine except you can eat! This year we were raising money and food for the local food bank. It was about 2am, a group of grade 8 kids decided on a scary movie. They got REALLY scared, one kid kicked over one of my small elementary book shelves! The best part was one I just sorted and weeded the previous afternoon (grumble). Accidents happen!
I get to join the gr.8 camping trip next week, it's going to be interesting! A good interesting. We will be hiking to our campsite for 1 mile, which may seem like an eternity to them. My partner is the outdoor Ed teacher therefore we've been planning a bit of it together. I can't wait! Some of them are not so excited that I'm joining, since they are in the library quite frequently and we don't always see eye-to-eye.
I cannot believe there is only 18 days of school left. It's nuts. A bit more weeding to do, yearbook pages to finish and I'll be all set. Not as much work as last year, which is fine. I will feel a little less stress, therefore I can be an extra hand for teachers and other support staff. This summer I'm going to Churchill to kayak with beluga whales, visiting friends and family in Nova Scotia, working on my partners parents' farm, and hopefully growing pretty flowers, lots of veggies and maybe get a dog! I've also reached the time in my life when friends are getting married. I have 3 weddings to attend. Super fun.
I can't really think of much else to write about as of now! Everything is good.
