Friday 11/14/08

This morning I woke up and ran on the elliptical while watching the morning news. There happened to be 3 things on the local news channel that had to do with Oregon (the pregnant man is pregnant again; a little girl fell down a lookout on the coast; and a river flooding in Portland area). My mom was up making breakfast and was shocked at what a “happening place” Oregon is. After breakfast we headed to the school. One of the frustrations I’ve had at school is my schedule. Everyday the classes I end up teaching never match the formal schedule I was given and am told to follow. I arrived ready to teach at 7 and Junior was nowhere to be found. He failed to tell me that our first periods were cancelled and I didn’t need to be there until 8:40 (he does this quite often). Luckily I brought a book of Sudoku (yes, I’m a nerd) and solved a bunch of puzzles. After the first period, I decided I couldn’t handle sitting around anymore, so I went with Adolfo to the 5th grade class for 2nd period. For some reason many of our classes were cancelled today and I had a big gap between the morning and afternoon classes and spent the time catching up at the internet café and going for walk and exploring new parts of town. I came back to school, taught a few more classes and headed home around 3:30. It was a relaxing Friday as we spent the rest of the day simply hanging out, eating dinner and eventually making our way to bed.