Then there was a place to live.

Well, that was the hope.  To have a place to live.  Finding housing in a town that you never have been before can be a little challenging, no matter the size of the town.  Not knowing your lefts from your rights, your good part of town to your bad part of town makes it a little difficult.  Persistence and a little faith definitely pays off.  For housing was found, and good housing at that.

Living in a place that you enjoy is key, for when you don't know anybody in town, your defnitely spending a lot of time in it.  The key is to enjoy it as well.  Enjoy it  I do, for the most part.  Until it gets messy.   It's nobodies fault but the cause of the mess to clean it up.  We'll just say it is a work in progress.  A very slow one at that. Work in progress at that.

Move in day, not great.  Apartment set-up, an enjoyable time.  Family, crucial in this process.  You never realize how much stuff you really have until you have to move it from one place to another.  Note to self, get rid of as much as you can.  You really don't need as much as you feel that you do. The more you have just leads to more moving. Ick!

At the new city, it was nice that the move in process was not too bad.  A nice destination was found, where there is space for all, plus more.  A comfortable place that you later find out is one of the farthest places from work you can be.

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Teaching, a fruitful business, please don't bring me more fruit then I can handle. :)

In the beginning, there was a job.

This entire adventure started when I started applying for jobs and I applied for jobs.  I applied for more then I can remember.  One thing I do remember is how long the application process took me to get to this point.  You know you hear from your college professors, parents and friends that it takes a long time.  "It's like a full time job."  You think to yourself, not me, I can cut corners, make it go faster, it shouldn't take too long.  Word to the wise, listen to the people that tell you it will take a long time.  It will take a long time.  Start early, but not too early and be persistent.  Everyone goes through the process, each one of my applications took nearly 3 to 4 hours, until I started applying to charter schools, no application, just a cover page and resume.  Score.  Score I did.  That is where I found this job. 

So, obviously I took the job.  Which landed me into this new city, a city of about three streets, a population smaller then my graduating class, one school (K-12), one charter school, a gas station, bar and railroad tracks.  Moving to this new city, was an exciting adventure.  In the beginning.  Until I ran out of things to do, which unfortunately did not take too long.  There is not much to do here, even in the "big" northern city of Brainerd, smaller then my hometown.  

It definitely has it's ups and downs. There are pros and cons, but there is definitely pros and cons to every situation.  At this point in time, I can say I have made new friends, gained new experiences and learned at a curve reaching straight toward the sky.

In this blog, I hope to share with the world some of the crazy adventures in this small town and the new friends that I make in the process.


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Being a teacher, a rewarding experience.  A stressful experience.  A exciting experience.  A frightening experience.  An experience not for everyone, but one for me.