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"Wow, someone who's nice. Minneapolis is usually full of a**holes"
I was standing on the bus stop and mouthed hello to a man with a plaid shirt and baseball cap out of reflex. He immediately engaged in conversation and started complaining about city culture as well as the "gay coffee shop" he was heading to for a danish. Too much cattiness apparently. He scurried off to another bus. Another woman came up to me asking how to get to a school she was heading to. She was waiting for about an hour. Incidentally, we were heading to the same destination and suddenly I was given motivation for going in on a Saturday morning.
It seems like I found a new vocational direction; I've been thrown into the gravity of a first year charter school set to open on Monday. The founder, in all of his knowledge, is working hard on producing numbers. Charter schools typically have a certain success rate. Part of it is getting enough kids, the other is academic success and community backing. I don't know specifics, but I imagine over time some of the politics will become more clear. This relationship started with scooping ice cream for a family informational meeting last week. Since then, I've been the symbol for ice cream of sorts around the school, at least to the guy who works at the church the school is sharing space with. I've only been there for a short period of time, but I'm already comfortable with the people who work there. It's just a stressful time to come in, teachers are hurrying up to prepare their classrooms and attempting to avoid complicated politics.
I'm re-evaluating my ideas about money and the type of work I want to do. Over the course of a month I've been given these little chances just to make money. Go for corporations some say. Apply for this job just because they're hiring, says another. I needed money, but I couldn't follow through on something that didn't look sustainable. I'm starting to consider doing Americorps full time. The pay isn't great, but I think I can work with it. The more I talk with some of the staff at the charter school, the more it seems like a valid avenue. It does take a village to raise a child and for what it's worth, I feel a small investment in seeing how this charter school runs during its first year. The window of opportunity is there, it's a matter of making a decision to take it. I'm also taking on another challenge, manning my own classroom of 25 or so little kids. It's only for an hour a day, but its teaching experience and a potential confidence booster for openly sharing knowledge and providing loving yet firm discipline. I can come up with whatever I want. Two week probationary period. The challenge is on.
