Game One: De Leon

So this was the first week of school.  I was at school by 7:25 am on Monday morning.  It was an early morning.  The good thing is that Mr. Boren has first period conference, so... I didn't have to teach ;P.  I was able to watch Mr. Boren prepare for the day and wake up.  The second period was 9th/10th grade Geometry.  Needles to say I am learning that as a teacher you are sometimes asked to teach outside of your content field.  Not a math major right here.  The third period class is a dual credit physics class offered through WTC (West Texas College).  Mr. Boren teaches that one and so I don't have to worry too much about what goes on in it.  The fourth period class is Conceptual Physics.  This is a physics class without the majority of the math.  After that is Mr. Borens last class of the day, Robotics.  For this class I am pretty much just helping when he needs me to.  After fifth period is lunch and then I move over and assist a first year teacher with his class.  Sixth period is IPC with coach Morales.  Seventh period is helping to facilitate a dual credit Anatomy and Physiology class.  For eighth period I help with AVID.  AVID is basically a college prep course for the students.  After AVID we have athletics and then it is after school practice.  So this is the schedule I'll have the rest of the semester.

On Thursday we were going to have our first game.  Roscoe regularly plays in the Sammy Baugh Classic at the Mustang Bowl in Sweetwater.  We were scheduled to play De Leon at seven-thirty.  So we got over there about two hours before the game and prepared.  The game was close except for four plays.  There were two long, scoring runs in the first half and two, long scoring plays in the second half.  Take away those and the game was eight to six De Leon.  However, they scored on those four plays and so it was a lot uglier.  But our guys showed promise.  So we headed back to Roscoe with our heads held a little bit high.  The following day I had to report to Abilene again for a student teacher professional development session.  Luckily I was able to only have to go until noon and so I headed back to Roscoe shortly after it was finished.