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By Victoria

You aren't, by any chance, a Teaching Fellow, are you? :o)

Don't worry, I had to take the shelves out of my closets and take them to the bathroom sink to scrub the dirt, grime, and mouse poo off them! It's normal, it's
the same everywhere, and I basically just feel lucky I only have 19 kids in my class!
Oh, and did you get the nice blackboards all covered in construction paper and glue? That was left over from some years ago when they told the teachers they were not allowed to write on the blackboards. Everything had to be done on "experience charts" and then strung all over the room. I shudder to

think what kind of chaos those students worked in every day.

Let me tell you though - it was all worth it when I asked my Friday Lunch with the Teacher kids what they thought of the room, and they said "We like it...it's so pretty and CLEAN." It made me remember what kind of holes a lot of them live in.

I did, however, get paid last week. Hope you get your license number and into the system soon - hang in there!