Cows, Lizards, and Vultures, Oh my!

You just never know what you might find when you accept a teaching position at a school sight unseen. The school facilities here are very small which requires some serious creativity in room arrangement, but the location is beautiful. The school is right at the top of a hill and the view from my classroom is great. That being said, I almost laughed out loud by some of the other views I saw on the way out of the library and to my classroom today...

-I step out of the library and straight ahead of me I see 2 cows! Second glance revealed they were just on the other side of the fence.

-Turn the corner to walk down the sidewalk and there I see my friend the lizard with the blue tell running across the path! I saw him last week and considered catching him for a class pet but decided I don't know enough about how to care for them.

-Only a short while later I looked out the window of the room I was in and saw a huge flock of some sort of vulture like bird circling around! They're not exactly vultures...we were told the name of them and I forgot...but apparently they live in the trees all around the school campus.

All that being said, set up in my classroom is going well except that I feel about a week behind. My bulletin boards and walls are looking great but I've got tons of stuff to sort through that previous teachers left--a lot of it old and not worth keeping, and all of it VERY dusty. Kids come on MONDAY!!!

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