Oct 7 2013: Overall

Our beds are so great; it was hard getting out of them that morning! But there was a part of us ready to get up and going, ready to be back on a schedule!

We only had later classes so we didn’t leave early by any means- but that kept us starving! Well Katie, mostly. So we went through a ton of left over snacks to enjoy! Three rice cake things. Shaped like a little tube or something, I don’t know.

Besides eating, we didn’t do too much. I mostly had to start journaling about the last week! So much to catch up on, it was insane! Katie had to pull out her journal to remind me of a few things that had happened and such.

Finally, it was almost noon so we dressed [we only have so many clothes to choose from so we’re usually both ready in 10 minutes which is awesome!], and headed to the school. It was pretty nice to be back, until Abby returned and ranted how bad her first class had gone.

That worried us a little, but of course the kids are going to be crazy after their break. Katie and I took our time enjoying lunch before returning to our desks and trying to plan a few lessons. I pushed back Abby’s words to the back of my mind for my first Grade 3 class.

It actually went pretty darn well! They behaved. They were good enough for a DVD… except we ran out of time. It makes me feel SO bad realizing that every time! So I’ve started writing down the time we would start watching the DVD if they are good, so the kids pay attention to the time for me which is a bit of a help.

My next class was terrible. Nothing much ended up happening. I love the kids to death, but it’s my bad class, Grade 3 Class 2. So much chaos. Man they love high fives though…

I was done teaching and Katie went off to teach. Her time went a lot like mine- one good and one not so great. Meanwhile, the internet broke down in our offices which was LAME. At least I had downloaded a book, Ender’s Game, so I read that for a few hours.

Then we got together for dinner which was pretty tasty.

After that, activity time! My kids have taken to tickling me! Such menaces. Some of them really love it, though, and as long as they don’t do it while I’m teaching, I’m okay with it. They like us teachers chasing them around, so it’s some fun over all. Although I got about four boys with Katie who love giving really hard high fives! They’re my kids, I can’t remember which class, though. Anyways we made a big show of doing big high fives- which also spare our poor palms a minute or two. I have extra white skin so my hands were definitely red at the end!

Then they started doing some random announcement or other, so we picked up and left. They use the song ‘Jingle Bells’ during a ton of announcements and such, we have no idea. But Katie started singing it and so we ended arguing about Christmas songs for a bit, and that I’ll refuse to play any until December.

Anyways, I got her to watch some of my few Community episodes for the evening, which she loved and we spent the whole time laughing! So our first day back wasn’t too terrible overall.