Senior Prefect
So today was the induction day for the 1st years and senior prefects play a huge roll in that in my school. And despite my brain going to war against me yesterday, I actually had a great time!!!
I was in an hour early, because I am an anxious little fuck, which ended up making it all the better. I got to chat to my favourite staff members and teachers (If you are not making friends with the care takers in your school, what are you doing?) and I got to get so much work done and check out the new building in my school (the one that was built specifically because of the accessiblity issues with the rest of the school, which means that the door in this building can actually fit wheelchairs so wheelchair users can go into more than 2 classrooms ((took them long enough, 2 wheelchair users have come and gone from this school, doing the whole 6 years)) and all of the signs have braille on them, which was so exciting, mainly because its accessible for any future low vision students, and selfishly because I'm trying to teach myself braille)
Because I was there so early, I got to perfect my spiel, and gather updated resources, so by the time that the rest of my team got there, I was running point and they were able to follow my lead. I was the person who got to welcome almost every single new student + their guardians, direct them to the sports hall where we gave the opening talk, give them a quick run through and be their first source of encouragement (and several members of my team were very thankful to me for, in their own words "carrying" them)
I got assigned to such a lovely class to mentor, and the tutor for that class is the whole school's favourite teacher (I also helped her to decorate her room and it is the most beautiful, feel good classroom in the school). All of the students were so friendly and loads of them felt comfortable enough to open up to me about their worries and fears, and some of them were even cracking jokes, assigning themselves as my adopted little sisters🤣🤣🤣(slanted laughing faces)
All of the workshops were so fun, and I got to just have the craic, while also working (the dopamine and seratonin were so high that I managed to go the longest on my feet that I've managed since my health started declining)
So many parents recognised me from different things that I've gotten involved with, from running the English department's section of the open day, from different community events, from my mam's business, from around the town, and one of my neighbours (The biggest sweetheart) had been pouring her heart out to my mam about how scared she was for her son to start secondary school, but when she saw me, she was so happy and was exclaiming SO joyously to her kids "Look, its (deadname) doing the welcoming" and she was practically bouncing!!! She is the most adorable person when she's so happy, we all love her to bits.
And during the parts where I wasn't needed, me and the rest o the senior prefect team just hung out having fun and lending different teachers a hand with different activities.
And everyone was so appreciative. All of the teachers were raving about us (including one of the vice principals who told me that there was "No better woman for the job" in reference to my work), and I came across the caretakers talking about me in specifics, and when they saw me they were so nice and were saying that I need to go for head student next year, and bigging me up and all🙈🙈🙈 (monkeys hiding their face to reference the blushing) and one of the SNAs (Special Needs Assistant)* was saying how she always meant to catch my name with all of the "great things" that I'm doing around the school and she was DRENCHING me in compliments. And a load of parents were talking about how grateful they were to me and how I'll be coming back as principal in twenty years time, and specifically pointing me out to the principal and all.
Overall, it was absolutely INCREDIBLE!!! I was in my element, I was riding the high of the energy and I got to help so many people, which made me feel so good about myself, and because pharmaceutical painkillers don't work with heds, all of my pain relief is based around either holistics, heat pads, or creating enough happy hormones to make my brain dull the pain. So I got to do what I love, have a great time, make a load of people so happy and have the lowest pain levels that I've had in a LONG time (I didn't even notice that my feet were torn up from being on the go in brand new shoes, or half of the patella subluxations)!!! This was AMAZING!!!
*Do not complain to me about the terminology. That is the name of the job over here and it is widely accepted as a suitable term here. It is a job name, it is not about you
