watch out for the poop volcano

What comes to mind????

I feel as though that title needs a little explaining...so in the mail the other day we get this later stating that there will be some work being done on the sewage system which could cause a minor inconvenience, however they suggested that we make sure the lid of our toilet was weighted down for 3 months! Just incase they had to pressurize the system and well you can figure out the rest. We found it rather hilarious that their classification of a minor inconvenience would be a resulting poop volcano.  I've decided to start practicing putting the weight on the toilet seat in the off chance that I forget when the work starts.  However they did say there was a very minor chance of that occurring, HOWEVER I don't think we should test it.

So I've survived my first week of placement.  The children in my class are lovely and I think we are getting along fairly well.  There are about 10 of us at this particular school so there's a lot of support.  I am having a hard time remembering that I have an accent and they I need to slow myself down when talking to the class because they have a hard time understanding me.  Other than that though things are going wonderful.  I teach my first lesson on Monday, it's a small group guided reading lesson and then Tuesday I'll be teaching a guided writing lesson.  It's all very exciting and just zooming by really.  I've got 4 more weeks at this school and by the end of that I should be teaching for an entire day...EEEKKK I'll have to keep you posted and let you know how it's going.  

I'm still swamped with assignments as well...but they are slowly coming together which is nice.  We've actually all been given extensions for most of them, however I've chosen not to take them because I want to get them done and over with so I can focus all of my attention on my students. So I should get back at it, keep commenting we love reading them! 

x

Amy