{"id":1095,"date":"2013-08-12T13:55:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-12T18:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funwithfirsties.com\/2013\/08\/teacherweek13-meet-the-teacher\/"},"modified":"2013-08-12T13:55:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-12T18:55:00","slug":"teacherweek13-meet-the-teacher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lsdesignssites5.techsurgeons.com\/index.php\/2013\/08\/12\/teacherweek13-meet-the-teacher\/","title":{"rendered":"#teacherweek13 — Meet the Teacher!"},"content":{"rendered":"
\nHi everyone!! I’m excited to be linking up this week with Blog Hoppin’<\/a> for:<\/div>\n
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\n(I’m going to “steal” a few random facts from a recent blog post<\/a>)<\/i><\/div>\n
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\n1) <\/span><\/b>My name is Sam.\u00a0Technically, Samantha Alexis Nowak (pronounced “novak”…my grandma is Polish)<\/i>.\u00a0I was born on February 14 and I have a big sister named Stephanie:<\/div>\n
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\n(She’s less than one year away from becoming a paramedic! …I hope this means I get to go for rides in the paramedic van)<\/i><\/div>\n
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\n2)\u00a0<\/span><\/b>I moved waaaayyyyy up north (not really THAT far, but definitely far for a city girl)\u00a0<\/i>just to teach. There were\u00a0next to no teaching jobs in the city so I dragged my fiance back up north to his home town. As terrified as I was at first, we very quickly fell in love with this place. How could you not?!<\/div>\n
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\nAnd, before I knew it, this became my favourite past-time:<\/div>\n
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\nI quickly learned: the more mud the better!!!<\/i>
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\n3)\u00a0<\/span><\/b>Speaking of the fiance, I’m marrying my partner-in-crime in Jamaica on February 12, 2014 (his birthday)<\/i>. We’re a little nuts…<\/div>\n
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\n4) <\/b><\/span>I danced 24\/7 for 16 years of my life. I have my Royal Academy of Dance Advanced 2. My studio was competitive so I’ve traveled to places like Florida and Las Vegas for Grand National competitions.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\n5)<\/span><\/b> I eat whipped cream out of the tub like icecream. DE.LISH.<\/div>\n
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\n6)<\/b><\/span> The only “celebrity crush” I’ve EVER had is Jim Carrey. No Aaron Carter, no Brad Pitt, no Channing Tatum. I’ve only got eyes for Jimmy!<\/div>\n
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\n7)<\/b><\/span> I love sketching and painting, although I haven’t had the time in a while. It was always my favourite subject throughout elementary school, high school, and university.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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\n8)<\/span><\/b>\u00a0I make my own red and white wine.<\/div>\n
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\n9) \u00a0<\/span><\/b>Last year (2012) was a *crazy* year: I graduated from teacher’s college in April, moved up north, finished the school year supplying at a local elementary school, got engaged, and, about 2 weeks before the new school began, landed my dream job as a first grade teacher.\u00a0<\/div>\n
\nThose two weeks were spent in a complete frenzy trying to prepare for something I suddenly felt I knew nothing about…but it didn’t take long for things to fall into stride.<\/div>\n
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\n(When I moved into my room, it was completely empty. This picture was a couple days before school started and, although it may look finished, there was still TONS to do!)<\/i><\/div>\n
\nMy first year was absolutely insane. Good insane, bad insane, I got it all!!! There were days when I was *loving* life as a first grade teacher: working at school until 5 and then working at home until 12. And there were days when I went home at 3:15 in tears, opened up my computer, and started looking for another job.\u00a0<\/div>\n
\nI thank God every day for the support from my school’s staff (you guys are stinkin’ AWESOME!);<\/i>\u00a0my family who put up with my stressed-out, over-emotional, borderline bi-polar behaviours; and the amazing world of teacher bloggers for continually renewing my love for this career!<\/div>\n
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\n10)\u00a0<\/span>Oh, and of course\u00a0I have to mention CARLOS our minniature long-coat chihuahua.\u00a0He’s super\u00a0important. So here’s some cuteness before you go:<\/div>\n
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\nLike I said, I LOVE connecting with new teachers every day…you are all so creative and inspiring, and I can’t wait to get to know you all a little better.<\/div>\n
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\nSo, head on over to Blog Hoppin’ to LINK UP<\/a> and join the fun!!!\u00a0<\/div>\n
\nHere’s what’s on the menu for the rest of the week:<\/i><\/div>\n
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Hi everyone!! I’m excited to be linking up this week with Blog Hoppin’ for: MONDAY Topic: (I’m going to “steal” a few random facts from a recent blog post) 1) My name is Sam.\u00a0Technically, Samantha Alexis Nowak (pronounced “novak”…my grandma is Polish).\u00a0I was born on February 14 and I have a big sister named Stephanie: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2998,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[84,80],"class_list":["post-1095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-about-me","tag-linky"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lsdesignssites5.techsurgeons.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lsdesignssites5.techsurgeons.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lsdesignssites5.techsurgeons.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lsdesignssites5.techsurgeons.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lsdesignssites5.techsurgeons.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lsdesignssites5.techsurgeons.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lsdesignssites5.techsurgeons.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lsdesignssites5.techsurgeons.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lsdesignssites5.techsurgeons.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lsdesignssites5.techsurgeons.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}