The school year is going full steam ahead but I feel like I can’t catch up…well it doesn’t help that I ended up out for a week with a virus. Usually, I am the last person to catch the nasty bugs, by then they have morphed into something else and I am down for a day or so. Nooo, not this time, I was out an entire week, the third week of school. That was the worst week to miss. I had scheduled two O&M assessment which are still in the process of being made up. I also missed an important FLDRS meeting in Tampa. The team voted and they didn’t want Typhoid Diana anywhere near them, I couldn’t blame them!
That was four weeks ago and have been on the road ever since. My first trip back was to the “sweetest town” in America (Clewiston, FL), there were fields and fields of sugar cane everywhere and lots of bear crossing signs. This was going to be a team function: RMTC and OSBD working together. We had our parent liaison Mark Keith (RMTC/OSBD), Our Deaf and Hard of Hearing Specialist, Nada El-Khoury (RMTC) and myself, COMS® and VI Education Specialist (OSBD). Let me just say that we did awesome working with the parents, teachers, and support staff, principal and of course the students. I was so pleased at how everything went together!
What is up with all of the acronyms? RMTC, OSBD or COMS…well RMTC is Resource, Materials, and Technology Center, OSBD: Outreach Services for the Blind(B/VI) and Deaf. COMS® means Certified Orientation and Mobility Specialist® (yes, our titles are registered).
After that I went to the Keys, yes for work and by myself. The trip was very productive as always. I am always grateful to Sharon Day, she helps this trip run smoothly. I was there for four days and saw seven students and six staff. I also met a teacher who tried to get me to go a Zumba class while I was down there. Maybe next timeJ
The next team function was the Usher Screening Training for SW Florida, last week. This time Leanne Grillot (our project manager, amongst other things) from FL Dept. of Education was there. We had four counties attend: Lee (the host county), Collier, Sarasota, and Highlands. Not bad for our first training. We will be doing four other trainings across the state before the end of this year(December). I have to say that again we did a great job and we learned so much from this first training that the next one is going to be better. A big high five to Nada for getting the power point done!
For the past three weeks, I have traveled down I-95 and Highway 27 and of course US 1.......next week, it will be I-4, I-10, I-75, highway 40 and highway 90
Now we are to this week, I found out my mother is not doing as well as expected with her lung cancer and my husband now has my awful cold( he is resting right now!) My mother’s news, although expected, still is hitting me pretty hard. I finally have my O&M assessment rescheduled and have two presentations to give… yes, this is going to be a rocky year full of ups and down. I know it’s not about the destination, it’s about the journey. With that, I think I am going to take this time and not sweat the small stuff and appreciate all that is around me.
