It's been too long!

Oh my goodness, it's been awhile since I've updated this!  Things have been very busy this past week.  I moved into my new apartment last Thursday (the 25th) and I don't have internet out there yet.  I can access my gmail and facebook accounts before and after school, which is nice, I just don't like staying there late for social reasons.  I'll be happy when I have internet out at the apartment again.  In the meanwhile, I've been spending most of my evenings getting things set up in the apartment (pictures up on facebook), taking walks around my new neighborhood, and watching dvds on my computer.  It could be a worse :)

School is in full swing and it looks like it will be a very busy year!  Every special ed progrm is run differently and I'm having to learn alot on the fly as things are getting thrown at me.  We don't have Lee's Summit's equivalent of a sped coordinator.  We do have a special ed chair, I'm just still a little blurry as to what my technical responsibilities are and what the chair covers.  I know I have more responsibilities here in terms of incoming students, referrals, and 3 year re-evals.  The lingo and terms are also a little different for the forms and steps of the process, so my learning curve is pretty steep!  Today I had my first IEP meeting though, so it's nice to have that out of the way!  Tomorrow I start seeing students for the first time and I'm excited for that.  I'm starting with 19 on my case load and there are 4 more in the referral process.  So, as stated above, between that and more responsibilities in the process/testing, I'll be a busy girl.

I'm definitely going to make plans for lots of travel too though!  Hopefully once the school year settles in, I'll be able to start planning some trips soon!