Today and tomorrow will be my final two days as the full time ELL teacher for the K-6 grade at George Seitz Elementary School. I will begin training with and shadowing my predecessor beginning on Tuesday. (We work a Tuesday-Saturday work schedule here to coincide with the states for conducting business as we are a little less than one full day ahead due to our location across the International Date Line.) Already, as I do with any new job, event, or activity coming up in my future, I have begun planning and brainstorming things I would like to contribute to my new workplace and the people I will be training and working with and for. I do this by talking things out with my new colleagues (fortunately for me living on such a small island and having worked in my new department previously, I know most of them already), and I start making to do lists and schedules. I have to think and talk and write things out to sort everything it all in my mind and move forward in a clear and effective direction.
My organization skills, attention to the little details, and communication are definitely my strengths, and I want to play to these and use them to help out in any and every way I can in my new job. I have also found over the years in various jobs that my willingness to just jump in and do what it takes as well as work collaboratively with others, makes all the difference in affecting positive change as well as earning the respect of and a rapport with my colleagues. So, today, I am excited for the challenges ahead and for going back to work with old friends as well as making a few new ones. It’s a new day, new job, and just maybe a new life because of the possibility to finally obtain housing with my boys on the island after 3 long years without this luxury. Say your prayers for me tonight as that would be a dream come true which includes a job I look forward to going to each day, a boyfriend who is so much more than I could ever have dreamed of in a life partner, and to have a home with my 2 sweet boys and all on a beautiful atoll in the middle of the Pacific where life is safe, secure, and peaceful.
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