Tuesday, October 13
Today was back to work after a weekend; these days often seem so sluggish. Everyone kinda seemed tired and not ready to be back to school yet, even the kids. I enjoyed my time off and would take more, but I had missed my kids, too. Towards the end of the day, one of my girls started making noises and couldn’t breathe well and when I asked what was wrong, she said she had somehow swallowed one of those pencil lead refills…don’t ask me how. So she was kinda turning red, having trouble swallowing, and was making hard to breath faces so I started freaking out like, ‘OMG, I don’t know how to do the himlech, what if she starts turning blue, what if she can’t breathe, what do I do?!?!’ So I ran to Sarah’s room and was like ‘Sarah, I think one of my girls is choking, do you know the himlech?’ and she was like no, so I ran to Julia’s room and asked the same thing and she said the same. So I was really freaking out and finally saw Mr. Lara and yelled at him across the courtyard to come over and he took care of it after that. So after that experience, I realized I should probably know some basic first aid, like the himlech lol.

I was ready for the end of the day when it came though, especially once I figured out how much stuff I had to do this week: decorate my classroom before next Tuesday, progress reports on Friday, etc. But we were getting water brought up to our house so I took advantage of the free ride up to our house. I’ll stay after later this week….Sarah had received some packages from home and as we were setting them on a table, a bowl from the morning fell and spilled the milk in it. So I figured since I hadn’t mopped the floors last week, I might as well do it now. So that was my first of many things I would do this evening. I swept and mopped the house floor and me and LB’s room. Then I wanted to burn off some steam and get my legs moving so I went for a run/walk/hike up into the national forest (since it’s my backyard and everything) for about a half hour. It was refreshing to actually run a little bit; my legs had wanted it. They’re definitely stronger and more toned since I’ve been here so that helps.

After I got back and showered we had dinner; then we noticed a ton of ants by the door and it was because there were bags of trash that hadn’t been taken to school yet. So I decided we needed to burn some of it. So Kirsty, LB and I started a bonfire with our trash. It was quite a process; we began by chopping some of the grass away from the pit with our machete, then put all of our bathroom toilet paper trash in first for starter paper. Tthen we added some cardboard and egg cartons and then some plastic and other stuff. It took a while to actually get it started, but we did it! It was really smoky, too, but hey we got the job done. After that it was my job to do the dishes this week, so Kirsty and I did those as well. Then I had to do some grading and preparing for tomorrow. I got stuff DONE today….ready for bed though.