Ashland Day 5

Well, I've just completed two days of classes. So far, so good. I already have TONS of paper to go through, but it all looks useful. There are only twenty or so in my class, most from Oregon and California, but a few from Washington, and another Canadian too. It IS a small world though. My roomie is a lady who has just been hired at Woodland HS, so she'll be working with my cousin who also just was hired there. And the other Canadian worked with Mom and P.W. Who knew?

The campus and town here are very small. I'd bet UBC is bigger than the whole thing really... at least in terms of the walking distances between the dorms and our classroom. Not even a mile. Somehow things always look bigger on maps. The room isn't huge either. We each have a closet (one side has a shelf and drawers, hanging on the other), a bed, and a desk with two bookshelves above. The dorm is perfectly situated, however, mere metres from Starbucks (even closer than the plaza to school) and a grocery store, so I'm having no trouble at all feeding myself. My room also has a fridge, but my roomie has a meal card, so it's all mine... all two cubic feet of it! We also have A/C which is great, even though we haven't needed it lots so far. Now the only obstacle to good sleep is the bed, which is really very hard, but at least it's not lumpy. Can't complain much at this price really.

Today we started scoring papers. Only two of us have taught AP before, so that was quite interesting. The rubric was new to everyone else, so we only did a couple before we took a break. We'll score poetry tomorrow though and that's the one I'm really looking forward to because it's the question I think many of my students didn't do well on.

Tonight we're going to see Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in the Bowmer theatre (the one I haven't seen a play in yet), which is indoors. And tomorrow we see Cyrano in the Elizabethan theatre (open like the Globe). Both should be great. The weather has cooled down a bit though, so I may actually need my blanket this time, unlike last Friday when it was still pretty warm in the evening.

We've made some 'adjustments' to our class schedule so we got out early today... this computer may not have been free otherwise, but I might be offline until later this week. End submission. ;-)