Where Am I Going? How Am I Getting There?

I met with Terry for awhile yesterday afternoon. Terry is the Director of Project Promise. She indicates that I have been referred to Berthoud High School for my Spring placement. Berthoud is a little town south of Loveland, Colorado, about 25-30 miles south of Fort Collins. The teacher that would like me to work with him is a Project Promise alumnus. It sounds like he primarily teaches Computer, though, not business, and that there might be another student teacher there from another college working with their "Business Teacher."

I am happy that somebody would like to work with me, but I am a little distressed that I have been referred to a school where I will not likely be able to actually teach Business, my area of specialty. However, I am not surprised that this is messed up. Terry indicates that she called down to talk to the teacher yesterday and that he said he would like to have my packet sent down to him for review. All other Student Teacher candidates (except for Business) have had their packets sent out months ago. Mine has been sitting on a shelf, as Dr. Yohon has not sent it out anywhere. I will be lucky to get into any school at this point.

I have tried to do some online research about Berthoud High School and I can find nothing more than the one page cover sheet on the District Web Site. This is a little disappointing. It is hard to believe that in this day and age, a High School would not have an Internet presence.

I will be visiting the school for an interview shortly after Thanksgiving.

Because of the distance, I expressed great concern to Terry that I might not be able to afford gas for the drive. Shannon and I figured it out and gas there and back five times a week in the winter will likely cost 150.00 dollars per month or so. This is prohibitive. The truck pictured is not really mine, but it's close. It gets about 10 miles to the gallon. We used to have a deisel VW Beetle that got 55 miles to the gallon, but with me student teaching, we could no longer afford it and I have to drive my mother-in-law's old beat up pickup truck.

Terry has come up with what might be a great solution. Her Graduate Research Assistant will be leaving after this semester at CSU. She would like me to be her GRA. I would be working about 10 flexible hours per week or so. She would like me to rebuild the Project Promise Website, which currently sucks and is way out of date. As I have some skills in this area and I love Terry, I am excited for the opportunity. This is planning stages only, though, so I will let more out later.