moving – Teachers Have Lives Too!

Or, since I’ve been gone.

I’ve let this blog drop for the past 8 months for a few reasons:

I fell into a sartorial rut
I ran out of things to say (or so I thought)
B and I decided to make (yet another) life change by moving to Denver, CO
I got busy (but not really, it was more laziness than anything)

I’m still struggling with #1 and #2, but slightly less so now. My climate has changed and more significantly, my mode of transportation has changed. We bought a car, so I no longer have to schlep it through snow/sleet and for that matter walk very much at all to/from school. My Fitbit has had depressingly low numbers since we moved. I no longer have to worry about new shoes giving me blisters after walking miles or how hot/cold I will be on the walk to the subway. I can wear whatever I want now, thanks to the fancy A/C and heated seats in the new ride. It’s borderline bougie. In addition, I’m starting at a new school here in Denver. That means new all of the things: classes, students, standards, curriculum (the district curriculum tells you to teach from a textbook – that’s practically a dirty word where I come from), BBC (blackboard configuration), buzz words, rules, etc. I will have heaps to talk about. I’m entering my 6th year of teaching high school science in public schools. I’m just going to go ahead and pat myself on the back for making it past the legendary “50% gone by 5 years” mark. Do I feel like an experienced teacher? Nope. Not even close.

So what has happened since I’ve been gone? If you follow me on Instagram, none of this is news to you.

I went to the Dominican Republic over winter break with a couple of awesome friends.

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I went to Puerto Rico over spring break with yet another awesome friend. Most amazing tropical beach vacation ever.

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Hung out with my niece and went with my sister to the White House Correspondent’s Dinner pre-parties again.

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B and I packed up, said goodbye (with a bit of tears) to my crew kids at Leaders, bid farewell to Brooklyn and moved to Denver. We’ve been here for a month so far, more on Denver to come.

I’ve been here living in Brooklyn for 15 days now. We still have unpacked boxes, and no couch. $3500 in Amazon and Ikea purchases later, we have a semi home. These pictures may not be horribly exciting, but this is how it all began.

Crate truck rolling down the street, circling 3 times before it’s parked on a neighboring street. Guy then drives the pitchfork carrying our crate to us. We have 30 min to unload. Good thing we had the help of these guys, also in town for Blogword Expo and NYC Wordcamp.

These boxes and a bed are all we brought. Thus the mucho $$ spent furnishing our place. B and I show our appreciation by serving beer on the roof of our new building.

High tech stuff going on in our building. This is how the bad guys get caught.

Everyone has pesky neighbors right? Our neighbors are all religious. On one block, we’ve got one arabic Jehovah’s Witness kingdom hall, one “Templo Unido” and one Catholic (I think) church. At least our building is secure.