One Down

179 to go! My first day at Lincolnton Middle School went well today. I arrived extra early and got most of the last minute things accomplished in time. It's great not having to drive an hour to school! I spent most of the day with my homebase (discovery/AA - get the names mixed up because every school I've worked at has called it something different). My student's assignment for tonight was to work on saying Procita correctly. Who knows how many of them will stick to that?!?! It's amazing how some of these kids let their true colors shine through very quickly. We are lucky though because one of the other 8th grade teams were already taking bets as to who would send this one kid to ISS first! None of us had any major complaints about our kids after today.

Today was also my first chance to practice with the JV team at Lincolnton High School. Our first home match is tomorrow afternoon. It's going to take a little while for all of us to get used to each other. It's going to be hardest for me to try to figure out Coach's rotations. It was starting to make more sense to me as the day progressed. I'll keep pushing the fundamentals and hopefully the rest will fall in line. I'm working on names so I can stop saying "hey you." I even got to design the team t-shirt today too. The girls just don't know that I out weighed all of their choices! On another random volleyball note - ALL of my girls from Heritage made the high school team this year. At this point several of my ABC team has made their various teams as well. That's the one downfall of coaching my own team right now - I won't be able to see them in action. I'm so proud I could pop anyways. Maybe I do know what I'm doing when it comes to volleyball. Well I've got to go do some homework! Thanks for all the prayers today and keep praying for me as I try to remain hopeful in transition...