Bye, Bye Blue Box

Here it is...

My portfolio for National Boards, boxed up and sitting by the front door ready to go. Dave took it to work today to ship it on its way. For as much work (and whining) I have done it really isn't a very big box is it? I can't believe I did it!! I still have one more part which is the assessment center. I have that scheduled for May. I go to the test center and take six 30 minute assessments on different subjects. Basically, they are all essay and I just have to respond to the prompt within the designated time. The assessments are part of the final grade, but are weighted differently than the portfolio. I went to a workshop about them a couple Saturday's ago and it also seems like the scorers consider that you could be a slow typer or flip out about being timed so that makes me feel a bit more comfortable too. Then after the assessment center it is just the waiting game. I won't find out if I pass until November, which seems so far away although I don't want it to get here to fast considering I have summer vacation in between!! Keep your fingers crossed!!