Good morning and Happy Weekend! I hope that you had an amazing week. I did but it was really busy. This next week will be just as busy. I have quite a few events going on. Some of the events this week include, The Cyber Challenge Preliminaries, Solo and Ensemble, and I have an audition for an Honors recital, with piano lessons, saxophone lessons and band practice thrown in there too. 😂 These are all fun events, just a lot of them for one week.
Our school recently had a dedication ceremony. We have now been in our building for a year. It took about 3 years to build our school building and it was completed during the school year, last year. All of the teachers had to pack up their classrooms and we moved to the other side of town, for our new school building. It was both a pain and exciting at the same time! So, for our dedication we celebrated. We had a lot of guest speakers, and a really nice ceremony.
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Watching the dedication made me think of how far my school has come. Previously, my school had been two separate schools. We had to figure out how to join the two together. When we first merged the two schools, we had to find a building large enough with enough classrooms, to house us. The temporary building we found was about a 30-45 minute drive away from where the two schools had been previously housed. Then, once we got used to the drive and temporary location, we had to move to the new building. It wasn’t a completely easy, stress free transition. I am sure that things didn’t go as planned a lot of the time. But, I would never had known it. I have an absolutely amazing Principal, Assistant Principals, School Improvement Specialist, Guidance Counselors, and Teachers that handled the move so positively. You would have thought it was an effortless transition, based on their attitude.
I have written about attitude in a blog before, so you already know I think choosing to have a positive attitude is important. I am not going to rewrite that. 😉 However, while I was watching the dedication, I remembered something my 5th grade teacher said in class a lot. “Anything worth having, is worth working for”. Our school staff worked tirelessly to get where we are now. Although, it was a lot of hard work, I am so thankful that the administration never quit. Paths that are difficult to walk, often lead to beautiful destinations.
So, this week if you feel like I did last week, where you have too many commitments and too little time to do everything, remember these two quotes. “Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat” Said Ann Landers. “Anything worth having, is worth working for” said Lori Rose. Keep your mind on where you want to end up, and take steps to get there.
Have an amazing weekend! Go play Acalympics
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