Wednesday we made another breakfast day!
Which is wise on Katie’s part because she has a morning
class, but not so wise on my part because I don’t have a class until 3. I tried
to start planning our Grade 9 class that night, but Katie was distracted with
her book and I was braindead so nothing much happened. I tried planning the
final classes of the week, and mostly read after breakfast.
That meal had been spectacular as well, by the way. Holla!
She had her class, and then we had lunch. Which we were very
nervous about, because of the last ‘special meal food’ that the cook had
brought us. We were slowly trying to tell Nicole and Magi that no, we don’t
need special food, we still enjoy what everyone else gets. Still, they did have
fried eggs for us at lunch. I ate most of it, scarily enough.
After that, Katie headed home with me! I set away to
chopping off some of my hair [it definitely needed a trim, so I cut several
chunks off], and then showered. It was only after then that the water guy
arrived! We had been trying to get him over since Sunday. The only way to do so
is by letting Nicole know we need more water, then she calls them up. It had
taken a few days and we desperately needed it. Thank goodness he was there,
yay! Oh and I got Katie to listen to the Dracula Broadway Soundtrack. Twice.
Very spectacular!
Shortly afterwards, we headed back to the school. I taught
Grade 3 Class 1- we finished the trivia game from Monday, which they really
enjoyed, and then finished up with the book for a bit [drawing in Goldilock’s
story], which was fun. Everyone came up with their own conclusions- total
destruction, broken bed, dancing, singing, drawing, confusion… it was awesome
to see what they came up with!
Oh and I had brought candy! Which the kids totally behaved
for, although it was a very close call with one kid. The little stinker… Oh
well.
Mostly behaved for, actually. They got super active for the
trivia game. Pure madness, really. But they usually shushed when I gave them my
steely look and told them to be good or no candy, haha….
Anyways, I was finished with that and by then Katie and I
had figured out what we’d do for the Grade 9 that night- Harry Potter! So she
went off to teach her other classes and I put the finishing touches on our
lesson plan for that night.
She finished teaching and then we headed to dinner. Just
when we thought we were free… we weren’t.
The cook had made us special food! Again! Yay!
This time: burgers! Yay!
Ehm.
Okay, so the cook is pretty cute and super sweet, he really
tries. He really does, and I totally respect him and wish him the best. He’s a
good guy. But these ideas are not so great. Some days the food just kinda
sucks, so naturally we’re not going to stuff ourselves. Most of the case,
however, the food is super awesome. Seriously. That’s all we need, nothing
special.
A tasty roll, and that was the only delicious part of the
burger. There were about three layers of the ‘magic mayo’ between a thick slab
of spam [why? For the love of all that is good, WHY?], which was between two
thin fried and covered in crumbs, mystery meat. It was weird. It was not good.
I was trying not to gag.
The cook had brought us eight- he wanted us to take four to
Abby and Greg. And we were to eat two.
To be honest, I never even finished my first. Nicole joined us with her friend,
thank goodness, and we offered them to the two ladies, who were very excited
about it [I don’t really understand either, I know], so we packaged four, told
them we were stuffed, and handed them away before heading out.
We headed back to our office, to be flooded by about five of
my kids from Grade 3. The really cute ones, of course! Two of them settled to
watch Harry Potter clips on my computer
that I had been going through [though the sound super sucked], and then Katie
and I played with two of my girls the counting clap game, which was a lot of
fun. We kept switching girls, and laughing- it was awesome! One of them had to
go, and the other one fell into a fit of giggles: it was super cute! Adorable!
Finally, they had to go and Katie and I headed up to teach.
Nicole wasn’t going to be there, which we didn’t mind. We
actually kind of feel it undermines our authority when she is there, and we don’t
really feel like we can do anything, but… yeah.
The kids had things going until 6:40, so class doesn’t start
until then- except the kids are now seriously taking their time and we don’t
get started until nearly 7 sometimes. So frustrating! This time we decided to
try drawing them in with a movie clip, which almost worked. But still a little
tricky.
Anyways, we had some candy for them, too. And we’re setting
up a discipline system for them- five lines on the board. If they’re all gone,
then no DVD or candy. Simple as that. I ended up erasing about two that night.
AND HOLY COW IT WORKED LIKE A MIRACLE ON THOSE KIDS. The moment my fingers
touched those ink stripes, the kids shut up. Seriously, it was brilliant.
The trivia game I constructed went pretty well, though! They
were split in two teams, and one girl from each team basically knew how to
answer the questions. Which were easy! Names, pictures of which years, things
like that. We tried adding in a few good words and called it good.
By then there were about fifteen minutes left. Katie decided
not to do the game she had put together, and instead we constructed the final
lessons we would end up doing with the kids! Only about four more weeks, after
all. So the kids came up to the board, wrote down ideas and then we called up
some votes. Now we’re doing the movies Titanic and Transformers next week, for
example! Sometime we’ll do music, maybe the NBA, American High School life, and
so on.
Overall it went pretty well and we gave out some candy
after. Tootsie rolls! American chocolate, yay.
After that, we were finished and headed out. We still had
the bag of four burgers which we would not eat and we knew Abby and Greg
wouldn’t eat, so we sneakily stuffed them in a trash can on the way home,
embarrassingly enough.
We grabbed a snack and drinks on the way home- we were
strangely craving carbonation.
So we settled down for a movie and enjoyed our drinks for
the rest of the evening!
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