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| - kayaking is a good idea
- kayaking with friends is an even better idea!
- kayaking with friends on the guadalupe river is an awesome idea
- kayaking with friends on the guadalupe river on memorial day weekend is not such a great idea (unless you find maneuvering a kayak through packed herds of bikini clad, full mooning, beer consuming toobers fun)
- kayaking down rocky rapids in a kayak that is designed for flat and smooth lake water is a bad idea
- flipping a kayak designed for flat and smooth lake water while going down a rocky rapid and being jostled into and dragged across painful rocks by the force of the water in front of bunches of people hanging out on a restaurant deck is a really bad idea
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| in the past 7 days i....
- traveled countless numbers of hours on a bus to west texas/new mexico and back with about 60 darling 7th graders
- tried to put up tents in blustery blustery winds
- taught a kid to watercolor
- went horseback riding
- learned how to orient myself with a compass
- was thrown into a public swimming pool by a swarm of darling 7th graders
- prayed with and for another swarm of darling 7th grade believers who thought they were sleeping in a haunted cabin
- finally started painting again
- climbed to the top of Guadalupe Peak - a grueling 3,000 ft ascent in 4 miles) with said swarm of darling 7th graders
- saw the moon through a telescope
- played a game of stripes and solids with a few 7th graders
- was challenged to a game of stripes and solids
- spent a miserable weekend in wet rainy philly
- hung out with my brother and sister
- spent 3 hours waiting in the philly airport waiting to come home. waiting. waiting. waiting
- replaced a slashed tire (with the help of a darling 7th grader)
in the next 7 days I will
- turn 26!
- kayak in the guadalupe river
- grade grade grade grade and re-grade
- proudly watch another class of seniors graduate
- take a bunch of children to the museum of fine arts
- be visiting the passport office
- begin preparing for being out of the country for almost 2 months!
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| <drumroll please>
el salvador with YES students! and london with family! and paris! and italy! we thought about throwing puerto rico into the mix, but i think we need to save visits to the motherland and the fatherland need to happen later.
thank goodness for things to look forward to. now i just need to persevere and get to that point.
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| Yesterday I was reminded of how painfully honest children are. especially 7th grade students. These last few weeks I've been working pretty closely with a group of 7th grade kids, supervising their work while they design & paint a new sign for a local cemetery. During the time I work with them, I'm also usually doing at least one other thing.
This week has been particularly busy, and yesterday especially so. I was with these kids for 3 hours straight. Over the course of the first 2 hours I jumped back and forth between helping them, helping some 8th graders, conferencing with 2 teachers, and then selling paletas after school to fundraise for this summer's international service trips. At the end of all that running back and forth, I burst back into my classroom to help them, and to my great surprise I was confronted by one of my students I will call Silly Goose.
"Miss!" Silly Goose exclaimed with a semi-sassy, semi-stern voice while putting his paintbrush down. "Do you know you are doing too much stuff right now?"
"Yeah, I know," I replied matter of factly. "My husband tells me that all the time."
Silly Goose put his hand on his hip, looked over at me with a sigh, and said "Well, Miss, you just need to stop being so nice, and start telling people 'NO!'!"
:-O!!
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