Original message: While attending a meeting last Wednesday, my media center once
again flooded,
due to heavy rains. This was the worse ever- reaching past the circulation desk.
I returned to school the next day and found 4 of my sections of book cases up on
2x4's and fans blowing all around
- smelled w-o-n-d-e-r-f-u-l. Enough dry, so spread baking soda everywhere. Still
drying out on Friday, however, teachers couldn't
understand why students couldn't come check out books. Monday morning, am busy
vacuuming up baking soda, when announcement comes
that we were going to stagger having students come to the media center to check out
books, so as not to overwhelm us. Yesterday had a special program in the media
center all day - no book
checkout. Meanwhile powers-that-be have decided that it would be a good idea to
replace the carpet over Christmas. Am told that
everything has to be out of the media center by this Friday (giggles slightly
hysterically). Am told not to worry too much about getting
15,000+ books moved out - book checkout to continue - we can get "some people"
together Friday afternoon to pack up the media center
(giggles slightly more hysterically). The icing on the cake is, I'm having surgery
Friday and won't be there at all - leaving my poor
parapro to deal with all of this! (rotfl)Thanks to everyone who sent words of
encouragement, I tried to reply individually, but may have missed someone. The
good news is - all the books were bagged and marked by Thursday afternoon.
Kindergarten teachers, K parapros and 2nd grade teachers were asked to come bag
during their planning period. Got a lot of the books moved, I moved all my
computers out, and things looked good when I left on Thursday. So my parapro & sub
just had to move the rest of the bagged books and a few odds and ends. We'll
probably never find some things when we move back in. Carpet is coming on Monday.
Surgery went very well and am resting comfortably at home (no pain so far - keep
fingers crossed!). I did have one teacher ask me if I was planning on coming in
over Christmas break to move things back in. Ha, ha, ha.
Have a Merry Christmas!
Barbara Roberts
Media Specialist
Cherokee Ridge Elementary
Chickamauga, Ga
bjsroberts@bellsouth.net
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