My corn blower is gone. Apparently their family is having some difficulties, so they won't be coming back to summer school, and they're going to a private school in the fall. Part of me is glad because he was a handful, but I'll miss him at the same time.
On the bus-ride to the zoo: "Let's see whose is bigger!" Don't worry, they were just talking about their name-tags.
One of them asked if we were going to the Hoagie zoo.
The zoo was awesome. We saw animals, climbed animal statues, contemplated buying animal souvenirs, ate ice cream - which has very little to do with animals at all, but is extremely delicious - and I ran into an old high school friend (Hi Jill!)
I love kids. I think I may have mentioned this before. I think we can learn a lot from them. Today my lesson was to recognize the wonder all around us. We took I-215 to the zoo for a fieldtrip today. I think about every other minute the kids were shouting, "Whoooaaahhh!!!" At some thing or another - the view of the valley, the big houses on the hill, the canyon we passed. Then they would do the arm-pump every time a big truck passed us and got the biggest kick when the driver would honk their horn. Love it.
In closing I'd like to say that I don't know if there's much of anything more adorable than a sleeping child. Too cute.
3 comments:
darling pic with the squirrel! Ha ha! What a fun job you have!
I'm so in love with that last chipmunk-y picture! I don't know if it's because it reminds me of the gorilla on "Return to Me" or because of the amazing connection kids have with nature, but I like it a lot lot. :-)
The world is a better place when a person who loves kids, and is basically a kids himself, gets hired to teach kids. 3 Cheers for You!
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