We have kids!! Finally! Students arrived for the first day of school on Thursday. We were both excited to be back working with youth and even more excited to be done wading through the administration muck. The method of communication at our school seems to be the surprise method which means that Adam arrived at school on Thursday morning to find out he was teaching not only Language Arts but once again, Social Studies. Heidi found (with a little more notice, thank goodness) that she is teaching grade 5 and also college counseling (struggling to see the connection? Us, too).
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| Heidi's Grade 5 Class -- All 6 Students |
The first two days went quickly and smoothly and provided many opportunities to smile. We fielded questions about Seattle, tattoos, if we had ever known anyone who had snakes grow in their stomach, obscure cities in the United States, swimming in the Pacific Ocean, if we like the movie "Rocket Man" (who doesn't), and most importantly, "Why did you move HERE?"
This weekend we have been preparing for the upcoming year by sleeping a lot and drinking ample amounts of local beer. We went out with friends last night to a grill-your-own-dinner type restaurant. We pretended it was someone's birthday so that we got VIP treatment -- lights in the restaurant turned off, happy birthday blaring over the speakers, and sparklers for everyone. Somehow we don't think fireworks being used inside a restaurant in the states would fly. Something about fire codes!?!
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| Grilling our Wild Boar in 5 Spices |
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| Heidi doubting this idea was thought through. |
This morning we walked to our local market to purchase food for the next few days, continued to master the local bus lines, and visited our favorite french bakery for coffee and cream-cheese stuffed croissants and to develop curriculum for the next 178 days of school -- not that we are counting.
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| All this goodness = $4 |
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