Orientation makes me feel disoriented.

Wow, life has been pretty hectic since my arrival at TASIS. I got here on Tuesday afternoon and have been attending meetings and training for my job, which really begins tomorrow when 252 students between the ages of 11-18 arrive on campus. I am on a floor with 15 15 year old girls from the countries of Dominican Republic, Korea, Spain, Montenegro, Brazil, Russia, Italy, US, and Turkey. I am working with my co-resident Monica, who has been here 7 years and teaches English. She is originally from South Africa, which of course, made me really excited and she knew both of my cousins when they worked here. I just found out today that I am a TA in the photography class and the SAT prep class (which should be interesting considering I never took the SAT...) I am also an administration TA, meaning I wander around during first period and collect attendance cards. I also work with the 9 other TA's to plan fun programs at night time. We have been working on a color wars thing that will go for the first 2 weeks where the dorms compete with eachother during scavenger hunts, realys, etc. If this is anything like my time in the res. halls at LAX, no one will show up, but alas, we must plan anyway. I am bit sad that there was no TA for dance, because that would've been so fun. We just got done with our last big group meeting and have the afternoon free, which means the TA's finally have time to meet....after that we have a kickoff "champange reception" and buffet dinner that we are getting all dressed up for. I have to be at a van at 5:55AM tomorrow to get to the airport to greet kids when they get off their flights. I work from 6AM-12PM and then come back to TASIS to meet my dorm girls and hopefully catch a nap! On Sunday, the entire school goes into something called Windsor where they go shopping....so we will be busy again. Then Monday, classes start. We also have to sign up to chaperone a trip every Sat. and possibly Friday nights and Sundays. These are all day trips, but there are some long overnight trips to Paris, Liverpool, Wales, and Cambridge/Oxford. We have to apply to chaperone those because obviously, alot of people want all expense paid trips like these...my first choice would be the one to Wales because they go kayaking, rock climbing, surfing etc. Lots of fun outside stuff, but we'll see. I also would like Liverpool, becuase of the Beatles :) I need to find time to do laundry...I'm running out of pants!