When one door closes...

It's just like the old saying goes, when one door closes another one opens.  The door has closed on one position, but a new and familiar door is open.  Upon getting "fired" last night I sent a text to a friend of mine, the teacher I used to work with, and asked her if I could have my old job back (knowing that they hadn't yet filled the position).  She told me that she would do what she could for me today at work.

Today I took the badge back to the school and signed my time card.*  On my way out to the west side and after I finished doing the deed she was in contact with me... apparently there were a few different options.  On my way home my friend called me and told me that the principal had asked her that morning during first period if there was a way to get me back.  He had no idea what my situation was, for all he knew I was perfectly happy at the other school and didn't want to come back, but he knew he wanted me.  My friend gave him the edited low down on my situation and said there was a pretty good chance I would go back.  I can start ASAP as the aide in ISS (In School Suspension) until another position becomes available in the SpEd department.  Both of those positions are 29 hours a week which is just fine for me.

Tomorrow I return to Evergreen Jr. High and hopefully will be able to start working.  We aren't sure if I can start tomorrow because of paperwork (which has already been started), but I'm going in to prove that I want this and am committed to working there.  I'm so excited to be able to go back to a school that wants me and will appreciate me for who I am and what I do.  This has been one of the best working experiences I have had (and I've had a lot!) and cannot wait to be part of the team again.  Not to mention I'll be back at work with a great friend of mine.  There are so many perks about working at this school it makes me wonder why I left at all.

*My only reason for taking the other position was for the pay.  The new school doubled my hours and offered a higher pay rate, and I need money.  The unfortunate part is that since I missed those few days of work I never made it to my full 30 hours a week.  (The first week, although I didn't miss a work day, had a holiday that I forgot about in the last post.)  I think that with the 15 from Evergreen and the hours I've worked at the other school I barely reached my 60 hours for the month which is what I was doing before.  That means my check may be a few dollars more.  And the worst part about it all?  If I had just stayed at Evergreen I could have gotten my full 15 hours a week and I would have gotten an extra 10 hours worth of pay because of the book report thing the staff was doing.  I read the book, Nobody Don't Love Nobody, all I had left to do was write the one page paper about it and be at the meeting.  But no, I missed that.

I suppose it's also true what people say; everything happens for a reason.  There must be some reason that I went to that school for the short two and a half weeks that I was there.  One of my friends said that it was so that people at Evergreen could realize how much they missed me and wanted me to be there, that they won't take me for granted because they now know that I could leave again.  Who knows what is really true?  It doesn't matter though, it's in the past.  It happened, it happened for a reason, now I just need to learn from it and move on.