The Chronicles Of Nay

Good evening! I hope that all of you are doing well! It has been a few weeks. Sorry… it has been super hectic and busy, but good. Ok let’s see what has happened since the last time, I submitted my yearbook, Mr. Bond and I took a group of students to the Card board boat Regatta, I bowled in my first tournament, and a whole bunch of random little things.

The deadline for submitting my yearbook is midnight on a Monday night. I had my yearbook submitted by 5:40 pm on Monday. It was glorious! I usually start by hoping to get enough pictures for 40 pages. There are a couple years that I have made a 44-page yearbook. This year I cut it down to 36 pages. I didn’t have the number of pictures that I would have liked to. I will say that for as much as I bitch about it, and complain that it takes up so much time… I absolutely love it! It combines so many aspects of things I love, my students, taking pictures, collaging (is collaging a word?) either way… I LOVE it!

BOAT REGATTA! Oh man! We had so much fun! So, let me start from the beginning, we built 2 cardboard boats. A guppy (a 2 seater) and a whale (a 9 seater). Bond is so good at this kinda thing. I didn’t even know where to start. He was like “bam bam bam let’s do this, then let’s do this. For it to do this we should do that. Blah blah blah” I was like “oh that makes sense.” I had no idea what I was doing! Haha He built some pretty awesome boats! The kids came up with the themes. A United states theme and a Texas theme. We took them to hurricane harbor and they raced in the wave pool. The big boat sank fast. We had too many kids in the boat. We tried to let the most kids participate that we could. We put way too much weight on that poor boat! However, even had we got going off the start line we would have had the problem of the fact that most of my students have never had to paddle anything! Haha most of them don’t even know what an oar is! The second boat had much better success. There were 2 kids in the boat. Bond did a great job of teaching the two kids that were in our guppy. I tell you he was awesome! The 2 kids in that boat, Amy and Juan, did great! I have Juan in class, he is a great kid! He works so hard at everything he does! He took what Bond told him and ran with it! He was super focused on what he was doing and steering the boat! Amy paddled so hard! She was a beast! I was so proud of how well both did. Really, I am so proud of all the students, the ones that helped build the boat, paint the boat and the kids that were there that day.

So, this last weekend I was in my first ever bowling tournament. It was a different experience. Back in like October Pat asked me if I wanted to bowl with her and some other women. I was like “um… a tournament? Um… sure?” So, that tournament was this past weekend. I had no idea what to expect. So, the way it worked was we bowled the team competition on Saturday. So, that was 3 games. Then on Sunday we bowled 3 games of doubles and 3 games of singles.  I bowled well. I averaged a 152 for the weekend. That is not too bad. My league average is a 144 so I did well. I had a lot of fun. The group of ladies that I bowled with were awesome. I had So much fun, we laughed and laughed! I don’t think I have ever bowled 9 games in 2 days before! I was having problems with my thumb sticking and over compensated for that so my fingers did more work than usual. My hand is so sore today. I didn’t realize how sore my back and shoulder were too until I would turn a certain way to do something. I will say my hand feels better this evening than it did this morning. I am hoping that it will feel even better tomorrow! I got a new jacket out of it! I love it! I am all about the hoodies! This one is awesome!

This week is teacher appreciation week. You don’t have to do much… but if you have kids, send a little thank you. You have no idea how far just a small thank you would go. (I mean this next sentence with all the love I have…) Especially if your kid is… how to put this delicately… a handful! You don’t have to send them much, a thank you card, a cup of coffee, a $5 gift card to Starbucks, McDonalds, Walmart… really any little thing that says “thank you for taking care of my child when they are when they are out of my care.” This is how Rosemont is celebrating teacher appreciation this year!

This weekend was exhausting! The kids are exhausting at the moment. We are a week away from state testing 4ish weeks away from the end of the year and this group of kids just don’t care!  Well I am going to head to bed so that I can be on my game tomorrow!