Since the last post, here's a little bit of what's happened...
- First day of school...it went really well, I gave some puzzle questions, told about myself, talked about expectations. Basically I wanted the kids to know me a little bit and not be totally freaked out by everything. Plus, we had a retreat coming up, so I didn't go too in depth with anything the first couple days.
- 8th grade retreat...we (the four 8th grade teachers) took 91 8th graders to Phantom Ranch, a camp in Wisconsin, for 2 days for a time of community building among the students to start the year. They had the chance to do activities like horseback riding, canoeing, and archery, among others. I was in charge of Team Building games, which went over relatively well, except for the food relay. Don't get me wrong, it was a big hit, it was just that some kids weren't able to, uh....hold it all in when they were done. It made for our cabin to be labeled the "sick bay" and lets just say that no one was sleeping alone.
- Labor Day weekend...Linds and I left early Friday morning (we didn't have school, I guess many of the families at Timothy have beach houses in Michigan that they go to for the weekend, so the school complies with that) for Linds' parents house and met up with them to head up to NW Iowa to catch Brent's cross country race and a couple volleyball games. It was a good weekend, it gave us both a chance to see family again and get out of the city for awhile. On the way back we took in the PC football game Saturday night before we came home Sunday night.
- Last Tuesday Linds had her first volleyball match, which you can feel free to read about on her blog. My interesting fact for the night was that I was roped into help line judge for the varsity match. The other official didn't show up, so I took a corner and the varsity coach's husband took the other. Even if we were biased, it didn't help a whole lot, they lost in straight sets.
- The next night was another late one...I had a fantasy football draft with some of the other teachers at TCS. We set up in the computer lab with our snacks and cheat sheets and went at it. I honestly had a blast, I could've done it for hours...or at least until the Dew ran out.
- Then the next night...Back to School night for K-8. Parents could come in if they wished and listen to the teachers talk about expectations and highlights for the year. It was a good time for the most part, a few questions caught me off guard, but oh well...
- For some unknown reason to me, I agreed to play basketball the next morning with some of the HS teachers. I know why I said yes...because I missed doing anything even remotely competitive, but as I was driving to school at 6 a.m., my competitive spirit wasn't exactly on fire. But it was a good time for the first half hour, which was when I slightly sprained my ankle. I say slightly because I wanted to keep playing, but still sprained because now as I look at it, its a little big and a little discolored. The worst part was that the average age of the rest of the guys had to be upper 30's to 40, and here's me by far the youngest guy out there and I get hurt. I just told them it was because I was the only one with my feet leaving the floor.
- I spent Saturday correcting homework and quizzes, which the class did fairly well in. The last bunch may have a few more questions marked wrong because I was in a worse mood as it was around the 8th inning of the Twins game where Reyes and Guerrier gave up 2-run bombs each to erase a 4-2 lead for Baker. It was the FOX game of the week, so its the first game I've seen since...July 31...I think. Wow, that's been a long time.
So long everybody...
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Justiin Morneau.......what a stud!
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