Tidepools & Teaching

I went out to South Cove with Carly & her husband earlier this week, it was the lowest tide I'd ever seen. John and I spent probably an hour crawling around in what is usually underwater when I take people on tours (I hope Carly wasn't too bored waiting). There were purple urchins *everywhere*, and several big red urchins. We saw all the regular stuff, plus 2 sunflower stars, a blood star, a few 6-rayed stars (or possibly 2 different species), and a bat star, which I had never seen before! No nudibranchs though. John took a zillion photos, so I hope they turn out and I can get some.

The HS called with an interesting opportunity- I could sub for a whole trimester for beginning Spanish classes next year. I certainly know enough to do it, but I'm still not sure. I don't have much experience teaching yet, and unless long-term subbing is an extenuating circumstance, it would use up all my allotted sub days (meaning I wouldn't get to do my favorite bio classes). I would also have to leave the park at the end of August rather than working through September, but last summer I ended up doing maintenance & entry-fee booth stuff for the month anyway. I don't know how to decide, and (as usual) the husband is less than helpful in making decisions. Several students really like me as a sub, there are 2 girls and one guy in particular who, each time they walk in the room and see me there, they exclaim "Yay, we have Ms. H today!" The girls almost skipped a field trip just to spend 85 minutes with me (doing boring busywork, so I convinced them to go), and one called the other to say "You picked a bad day to be sick!" when I subbed in field biology on Friday. But that doesn't mean I'd be a great Spanish teacher for 3 months....

I don't know how to decide this one. I guess I still need to call a few people to find out more information. It would be fun, and good experience (and good money), but I don't know.