A Reverse Recap

It's Sunday, and I'm feeling quite lazy; I certainly don't want to do any homework.

Jay and I have been staying at my parents' house and taking care of their dogs for the weekend while they're out of town--my parents are out of town, of course, not the dogs.  Today we came back from church to find that one of the dogs (I suspect Dee Dee) had gotten into the bathroom trash.  Saturday we came home to discover that they ate bread that was on the counter.  The bread they got into was from dinner last night: lemon & garlic chicken, parmesan pasta, green beans, and a fresh loaf of bread.  We thought all of dinner was delicious, and the dogs apparently liked the bread. 

Before that happened, however, I woke up at 5:30 to take my parents to the airport.  Do you know what outside looks like at 5:30am?  It's DARK.  I'm pretty sure even the moon is sleeping at that hour.  Once I got them to the airport, though, I came back to their house and went back to sleep.  So that was nice.  Then we met Brittany for lunch and the three of us saw Vampires Suck.  That movie follows the Twilight movies almost exactly, except there are jokes and mockeries you won't find in Twilight.  Jay was not thrilled to see it, saying that he prefers the Scary Movie series because they draw from several movies; watching Vampires Suck was like watching an even worse version of Twilight.  Meh.

On Friday, I went to my second day of student teaching/observing/interning/PDS I (Professional Development School I) at Bowie Middle School (different people call it by a different name, but they all mean the same thing).  I was much more interactive and active on Friday than I was on Wednesday.  On Friday, Mr. C had the majority of the students work on a context clues assignment while four or five students went to the back of the classroom for test remediation.  While he was re-teaching the test material to the students, I circulated the room and helped the students who were stuck (they were given a copy of Diary of  Wimpy Kid, and some of the words had been whited out and replaced with German words; the students were to use context clues to figure out what the German words mean) or not on task.  In this time, I told way too many students to stay in their seats and keep their hands to themselves, but they (mostly) got their work done in the end. 

After about the third class period, I went over to Mr. C and asked him if it was alright that I was circulating the room--he hadn't told me I could, hadn't asked me if I would, and hadn't thanked me because I did.  When I asked him about it, he was more than happy that I'd started to do that; at lunch, when we went to the teacher's lounge/workroom to get his lunch (mine was already in the classroom), he told another teacher what I had done: "Mrs. So-and-so"--I can't remember her name!--"do you know what Christine did today?"  Immediately, I thought, Oh crap, I stepped on his toes with this.  "She took it upon herself to walk around the room and help my kids.  It was fantastic!  I might ask to permanently have a second teacher in the room!"  It was really nice to hear that. 

During sixth period, I went and observed a science teacher's sixth grade classroom.  They did a very cool lab that was all about volume and measuring liquids.  I've never seen students more interested in science: not a single one was off task, goofing around, or bored.  It was amazing.  On my way back up to Mr. C's class for seventh period, I happened upon four boys in the hallway roughhousing.  One kid had another in a headlock, but everyone was laughing--including the kid in the headlock.  In my most authoritative voice, I loudly called, "Excuse me.  Is this where you're supposed to be right now?  I do not believe so."  The boys broke up really quickly and told me they were going to the bathroom; I made them go in one at a time.  When they came out of the bathroom, they practically ran to their classrooms.  It was awesome.

Later Friday night we went to Dave & Buster's to celebrate Katie's birthday (not my sister, for anyone thinking, Hey, her birthday is in December!).  We had lots of fun and won lots of tickets, but we gave them all to the birthday girl.  :D

In other news, it looks like Thursday is our new trivia night.  We went and played at II Charlies, just Jay, James, and me.  I knew one answer this week that the other two didn't, but most of the right answers (or any answers) came from James and Jay.  Going into the final question, we were in first place!!  Coming out the final question, though, we were in fourth.  :(  We didn't bet any points on our answer because we didn't know the answer, but it seems that three other teams did.  Oh well, there's always next week.

And there you have it: a reverse recap of Thursday through Sunday.  :)  Time to rest up before we go to dance class tonight.

Have a great one, y'all!