Friday, September 30th
Last weekend was all about getting things done: talking with the family, starting this blog, school work, going to Fahaheel grocery shopping, the Chocolate Bar, the party, and heading out to the Avenues (mall) to go to Ikea and stock up on stuff. I was pretty much home to sleep and Skype. I was exhausted all week!
This weekend I decided to be a bum. The only time I left my apartment today was to take out my garbage. It was one of those lazy, I’m-not-going to shower today days. It was glorious! Don’t get me wrong, I was still productive! I talked to Robin in the morning, graded papers, typed up some more blog posts, did some reading and watched a movie.
Saturday I went in to school. I happened to be around the vice-principal when she was talking about Saturday school and needing to find out if the person who did it last year was still interested. Of course I asked about it! Saturday school is for those special students who either:
a) get into a lot of trouble for something during the week
b) don’t show up for their detention during the week so they have to go to Saturday school
Basically, the students need a classroom to go to with a teacher in it. Voila! Another income opportunity is born! I volunteered to run it if he didn’t, or to be a back-up person. It turns out, he can’t do it all of the time because he’s also a sports coach of some sort and he was busy this weekend. Score for me!
I was supposed to have 4 kids, but only 3 showed up. They are not allowed to talk, they can’t use their phones or iPods, or have anything other than water in the room. They are there between 9 and noon, and get a 10 minute break. I had work to do anyways, so it was fine with me!
And then it happened. I heard this trickling noise. I looked around and didn’t see anything, so I continued to work and wait for my Caribou coffee delivery (oh how I heart it!). I kept hearing it, and so I walked around. There was water dripping from my ceiling onto the floor. I’m on the first floor (it goes ground floor, first floor, second floor). There’s a classroom above my room. How interesting!
I went and talked to Erin and she said she’s have Dan call Albino (the head maintenance guy for the school and the apartments).
30 minutes later I went in search of Dan. I had a small lake in my classroom. I had already shut off the air conditioning, because I thought it could have been that. It wasn’t.
Apparently there was something blocking a pipe upstairs and that’s why the water was literally beginning to flood my classroom. This is because every Saturday the maintenance guys hose the school down. They literally pull out hoses and wash the whole outer perimeter of the school! It’s pretty entertaining to watch, except for when it has an adverse effect on my classroom!
I had been thinking about moving my desk to the front of my classroom earlier in the week. I am beyond happy that I didn’t! That could have been really bad.
After school I went back to the Avenues with Maddie, Rina and Allison (I think). Our mission was to look for a dress for the Rugby Ball. It’s a formal affair, and none of us really had anything that fit the ‘formal’ bill. Rina found a couple of cheap dresses, but the rest of us didn’t find anything. We made a quick dash through Ikea and then stopped at Carrefour for groceries before heading home. Skype with the parents then off to bed it was!
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