Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Nov 19 2013: I Finally Saw Anchorman

Tuesday! We woke up early for the first time in a while and went to get breakfast at the school! We figured we should start doing things like that more often and all, so… there we went. It took us a little while to get started, but we figured it out okay!

They had dumplings for breakfast. And some other rolls and stuff. It was kinda awesome. But we’ve gotten so used to not eating that early in the morning, that we could hardly fit anything into our stomachs! At least I thought so- and Katie was telling me how stuffed she was all through the day, so that’s got something to it, right?

We headed to our office and chilled out there until we had to teach our first class of the day. She headed off to teach her difficult class- last week she even had Yoyo come in and help her out for both classes. It’s been that crazy in there! Luckily for Katie, the kids are catching the hint and behaved a little better for her then!
My class went well, also. We continued the game a little more and then they drew part of Goldilocks story- they just had one square to draw something and the results were hilarious! Sometimes she drew or danced. Once, the bears came home to find her. Then there was another where she went to the city and there was a storm…? I really don’t know, but the kids are pretty creative! It was a lot of fun to watch!

Katie and I headed to lunch after. Unfortunately, there wasn’t too much good food then. Which wasn’t too bad because breakfast had really done a number on us, right? Except that the adorable cook chose the worst timing ever to come see how we’re doing the food. And we couldn’t really communicate. He walked around us, and left. Ten minutes later- just as we were finishing up- he brought us a platter of other food!
We couldn’t do anything but say thank you, of course.

It actually made me kind of happy, to be honest. Katie wasn’t thrilled, because after one bite she knew it was most definitely fish- she’s good at sorting out some meat because I wasn’t too sure. All the same, he had given us like 10 sticks of fish meat covered in what looked like buffalo sauce but was not buffalo sauce. Something sweeter than that.

Honest, it didn’t even taste like fish. It’s just… good, I don’t know.  All the same, Katie and I downed about three sticks each, and by then we were more than stuffed. Katie tried texting Greg and Abby to come because we weren’t sure what to do about the left overs! Try returning them to the kitchen? Leave them there? Dump them? Give them away, what? However we were still on our own after a while and tired of waiting. So finally, I said good bye to the yummy food as Katie handed them off to two other guy teachers- they looked excited for them- and we headed out.

Katie headed home and I finished my book online and waited for my classes to begin.

Grade 4 was more hectic than ever- I don’t know what’s happened but they’re always talking and they’d been making phones with cups and string and everyone was trying to play with them. I made a rule they couldn’t have them out and definitely gave them some bad marks for finding them. It’s getting trickier and I hate being mean- but I also don’t appreciate the whole class ignoring me!

We got through everything okay after a while, although they didn’t get a DVD. Grade 5 ended up being a little better, though. We went through directions and things like that, and I tried to keep the kids from fighting some more, and they were good enough for a short DVD at the end, one of funny dogs!

I grabbed some water and headed back into the hall for my final class! I had a boy come up to me as I went, from my earlier Grade 3 class. Pointing at the book I carried, he was saying it wasn’t cool, so I taught him ‘lame’ for not cool. He stopped and said, “I am tall, you are short.” And hey now, he is literally only up to my shoulders. I laughed and he repeated and added, “I am bigger, you are smaller!”

Walking a little bit, I laughed a little. “How about, I am smart and you are silly?”

He paused to think. “I am cool, you are beautiful.”

Somehow that works out? I don’t really know, but I’ll take it! I thanked him through another laugh and headed to class! Which went pretty well! They loved the game of finding things on my PowerPoint [by the way, I have to tell most classes it’s the Teachers Computer, so they can’t touch but that still doesn’t stop them as much as it should…] And we never even touched the English book which I feel kind of bad, but hey, they had fun! And I was trying to teach them words that were in the pictures, like Crown and Microphone and such!

Katie returned for dinner and we tried to add more on our plates even though dinner wasn’t too great, but we didn’t want the cook to go out of his way to make more food or anything, it made us feel really bad! Well, Katie felt worse, but I was trying [those fish sticks are tasty].

Shortly after, we headed home!

It took us a little while, but we eventually pulled out the movie Anchorman. And yes, it’s stupid. But of course yes, there was a part where I laughed so hard I cried and couldn’t see straight. But no, I don’t think I’ll really watch it for a little while…hahaha….


And finally we went to bed, yay!

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