Leather and Studs

I have officially made it through one day of work! It has been a really good week and I am very excited for 7 more weeks of it. Today was a pretty relaxed day. We had some dictation and reading comprehension work along with bus safety. In bus safety today we learned to wait for the bus to stop before you get on and off the bus. We also got to do Music and Art. Music and Art today consisted of the kids working on their superhero pictures and listening to glee songs on youtube! How amazing is that?!!?

We also had library today, which let me tell you was an experience! Hence the reason that I made this its own section. Well, let me just say that for any of you have had to wonderful opportunity to meet my grandmother, Tutu, you will fully understand the experience of the librarian more. The librarian, Francine, is an older woman, probably in her late 70's, with very long white hair. She has very eccentric outfits and never wears the same thing twice. Today, Francine was wearing my favorite outfit so far. Let me explain to you (there would definitely be a picture if I had a camera on my phone). Let's start from the bottom and work our way up. To start, she was wearing black ankle boots...not too bad. Then....there was leather pants, not just regular leather pants, but very tight, skinny, leather pants. There are no words. Then there was a lovely military cut (aka strong shoulders) velvet jacket with silver studs throughout. Underneath that lovely studded jacket there was a very tight black turtleneck. And to top off the outfit, and the icing on the cake, she was wearing a lovely black pillbox....also with silver studs around the entire thing! Ohhhh was entertaining. Something that allowed me to compare her quite well with my own grandmother. Those of you that know Tutu have to admit it is something you could see her wearing. Along with Francine's amazing outfits, she says some of the craziest things. Today, we were talking about some of the new books the library has and there was one about Australian soldiers...Francine then proceeded to ask the children, "Does Australia every start any wars? No, but we help out in many other wars because we are such nice people. Once you get older and start traveling, you will see how wonderful Australia really is" Ohhh Francince. This was also after she asked me if I knew some Author and said she assumed I would because he was an American. Yes, I have a database of every single American in brain. Finally we also got new Mary-Kate and Ashley books....well they are the It Takes Two series, so they are really 10 years old, but new to the library apparently. Danelle, you will be very disappointed in Francine when I tell you this, but she referred to them as Mary-Jane and Kate. I know....I wanted to correct her so bad!

I talked to Adam today, and I am going to be teaching the spelling lesson on Tuesday. I have to give the words for the pre-test and then do some kind of activity with it afterwards. I am a little nervous, but I think it will be ok. I think I am just going to keep it simple for right now. I did have some time to think about other things though. We have multi-cultural week coming up and we are trying really hard for our class to get the United States. I came up with a lot of ideas for that week. Tonight is our big cookout with all of the people staying here. It should be a lot of fun. I think tomorrow we are either going to go to Bondi Beach or to the harbor area....maybe even both. It should be a fun, three day weekend. Happy Birthday to the Queen and thanks for Monday off!