I Get Bored Now

Now that Nancy's gone and I have no one to go exploring with, I don't do any exploring. Last Friday I told Natalie that I would get all my lesson planning done ahead of time so that next week (that means this week that we're in now) we could actually go places at lunch. I was trying to be nice and show her around and to get myself out. But we all know that yesterday I was not in the type of mood to do any favors for her and she has apparently forgotten our tentative lunch plans because all lunch break she just slept. Um, I'm pretty sure that I'm the one who has fallen back into my old pattern of not being able to fall asleep, so why is she the one napping? And because Ronald is gone I can't hang out at the juice stand until 11pm. Things are just so mellow now. I don't like it. Tomorrow is my day off though and I plan of doing the routine cleaning and lesson planning, but I'm also going to sit down and plan out things to do on the weekends and things to do in August. So hopefully I'll feel better and more adventurous tomorrow.

Things went better with Natalie today too. I figured out that if I lock myself in my room at every break and don't talk to her, we get along much better. Okay, I hate to admit that that's what I'm doing and I hate even more having to lock myself in my room, but until we're on more steady ground, it's better that I don't put myself into situations where I might snap and rip into the poor child.

My run went really well this morning. When I went running with Nancy I tried a couple times to do a 5 minute regular pace, 2 minutes fast pace rotation for the 30 minute run, but it didn't work because I wanted to stay with Nancy and she didn't want to pick it up. Well, I have no problem leaving Natalie behind so I actually did the workout. I was pretty tired afterward, but it felt really good to pick up the pace a little bit.

Lessons went okay today, there was nothing extremely fascinating, but they were all involved in it so that's what matters. Like I said, lunch was boring. I had nothing to do and two and a half hours to do it. Although I did get a few more pictures transferred from the kodak gallery to my computer. My t-rex lesson went really well and also not so really well. Let me explain... I started off by asking if dinosaurs had babies or if they laid eggs. They all knew that dinosaurs laid eggs and so I showed them the dinosaur eggs that I brought with me. I had hard boiled some chicken eggs and dyed them green and put purple spots of marker on them. The kids were so intrigued by it. I was sad when I dropped the first egg into the pot and it cracked, but when I was in the classroom I told the kids that a baby dinosaur was ready to come out and then we acted out how a dinosaur would come out of the egg. I actually had them going and they were sure that they were real dino eggs. Perhaps I should have let them keep believing it, but I had to tell them that they were fake because they already know that all dinosaurs are dead so I reminded them that there are no mommy dinosaurs to lay the eggs. The second class was way more devastated then the first class. They kind of made me feel bad that I had told them the truth. Class didn't go so well because the craft took way longer then it was supposed to. I had them cut out two t-rex shapes and then I had scrap paper for them to scrunch up and stuff inside so that they could have a fat dinosaur instead of a flat one. Unfortunately in my trying to conserve paper, I made the dinosaurs way too small so it was hard to stuff, and the kids took way too long cutting the things out. I thought I had learned from the first class and so I taught less in the second class but we still ran out of time. Goodness gracious, now I know: don't worry THAT much about conserving paper and watch the clock a lot more carefully second class when you run out of time in the first one.

I had tutoring after school but only one boy showed up out of three and so Yuling came in and told me to stop because she didn't know how to charge for the tutoring (it's cheaper in the group setting but he was getting one on one). Passion came 10 minutes late and so Yuling had me teach them for an hour instead of an hour and a half. And Yuling also came back in later to tell me that Ginny would be taking the two months of summer off and so it was just going to be the two kids so for the next two months we're going to meet upstairs and only go for an hour.

After tutoring I showed Natalie the famous fried chicken place but she decided to just pick something up at the bakery. I thoroughly enjoyed my chicken and sweet potato fries. But on the bike back I decided that I was going to pop a movie into my laptop and enjoy a movie while eating dinner. Sad story... my laptop wouldn't play any of my movies. I don't know what's wrong with it, but that bothers me that it doesn't work. For one, the computer isn't even a year old yet so the DVD player better not cop out on my yet. And two, I was really looking forward watching a movie. I finished dinner without a movie and tried to transfer some more pictures, but I only got 5 pictures in when the website kicked me off. That's when I decided to just blog. It's only 8pm, but I don't plan on anything super interesting happening before I go to bed so it was okay to write now.