Back to Work

Wednesday, Thursday, Friday July 5,6,&7 – Hi Ho Hi Ho, it’s back to work I go! Yipee! I was really excited to get back to work. Everyone was happy to see me and lots of people immediately told me how much they enjoyed the blog which was very gratifying. Each day is fun because to run into yet another person who hasn’t seen me yet and I get the double take look, then a big “welcome back, how was it?” It certainly makes getting from point A to point B take longer than usual. The “how was it?” part is the hardest. How do you encapsulate 4 months of a whole different world in a few quick sentences? Some of my friends have even asked to see pictures which scares me as well. Are they crazy? Do they have any idea of how many photos Sue and I took? I’m sure I will end up giving one or more presentations about our adventures to my department and/or the whole company. My boss is currently at the NFB convention so I will get the details of what he would like when he returns next week. There is so much to cover!
I ended up rejoining the team I left back in March, which is great as I really enjoy working with them all. We have just one more month before we “go to class”. This means that my team will work with the students who come to receive a guide dog in August. We will match them up with dogs that they have trained and teach them to work with these dogs. It hasn’t yet been decided who will work with the 4 week class and who will work with the 3 week retrain class. Wouldn’t it be weird if someone coming into my class has been reading this blog? I guess a student came in last month who had been reading the blog and asked to meet me! Unfortunately I was still vacationing; it would have been fun to meet them.
My team put me to work the first day by giving me dogs to work, and we celebrated my return by going out to breakfast with the dogs. I do feel a bit lost at work as while I was gone we began a trial of schedule changes. I feel a little like a new employee asking “what do I do now?” Everyone assures me that they all still feel that way but it’s still strange.