A 3 hour long orientation?
Tomorrow morning, Sebastian and I have to go up to the high school, be there by 8am, for his high school orientation and tour of the new building.
It will take 3 hours and it's mandatory.
This is a picture of the new building.
In the lower left of the picture, you can see the old buildings.
It was an open plan design, meaning that all of the hallways had openings directly to the outside, not just doors, but full and wide openings.
At the end of every school day, they had huge gates that came down and locked in place to prevent anyone from entering any of the buildings.
The new building is a closed building, they said they built it for security reasons, so that people can't just walk in or out of the school.
The orientation is mandatory, if a student does not go and listen to the principal talk for 1 hour, and then take a full tour of the building for the next 2 hours, with their parents also in attendance, they cannot have their class schedule.
That's really not right, making every student and at least 1 parent, have to walk around the entire building, look in every room, for 2 hours, or they can't have their class schedule.
It's going to be very difficult for me to do, but it has to be done, so I'll be going.
I was hoping that it was going to be only 1 level, not 2 like the old school was, but nope, 2 stories.
It takes me like 2 hours every morning to get up and get moving, un-stiffen, before I can start my day doing all that needs to be done, so I'm going to have to wake up at 5am, sit down and take my meds, wait for them to start working, and then take my shower around 6am, then wake up Sebastian, have him take a shower, and then leave the house by 7:15am so we can walk to the school to be there by 8am.
I'm going to have to take a diet coke with me and 2 extra pain pills in case I start hurting bad doing all of that walking to the school, walk around the building, and then walk home.
I'm going to be dead tired, sore, and wiped out when we get back home, but it has to be done, so I'm going to try and make the best of it.
While we're there, we need to go talk to the guidance counselor because Sebastian wants to see if he can get in to poly-tech, the technical high school, instead of staying at the regular high school.
He wants to do computer stuff, programming, game design, graphic design, and he can learn all of that at the poly-tech high school.
He is probably not going to be able to get into it for this school year, admissions are closed, but he will be able to get in for next year, so we need to talk to the guidance counselor about all of that, what he needs to do this year so he can pass the admissions testing for next year.
It's what he really wants to do, so I'm going to do everything that I can to help him get there.
I'm also hoping that tomorrow, after the orientation and tour, that they give us the back to school supply list so that when I get paid again, I can get him what he needs for school.
I have tons of notebooks, pens, pencils, folders, all of the basics, but if he needs anything special, I need to know so that I can work on getting it.
