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I received this awesome postcard today from the Holocaust Stamp Project that I donated stamps to a few months ago. They surpassed their goal of 11 million stamps back in September. I’m glad I could be a part of that.
So today I spent most of my work day putting together the shark games the students and I made. The students colored the sharks and cut them out. I then cut out the sharks’ mouths and assembled the little games. They’ll get to play with them on Wednesday, when Gail comes out for our “day of play”. I am so ready for that bullshit to be behind us.
Which then means, we get to fast forward to the week before Thanksgiving. There’s going to be a gymnastics group coming into the gym for the entire week with all their stuff…which means that for the entire week, we can’t use the gym. So we’ve gotta come up with some things to keep the students occupied just in case the weather decides to turn shitty (which is always does the week that the gymnastic group is here) and we can’t take them outside. I’ve talked to Jess about teaming up with Sarah for the Winter Party planning and she’s game. So hopefully I can talk to Sarah about that tomorrow and get her and Jess working on that. I am asking Alaina (Laine) and Alexia (Lexie) to come up with some autumn crafts to do the week before Thanksgiving. I personally am NOT a fan of Thanksgiving in its mythical US story form and I cannot stand the cheap “Indian” crafts they come up with that completely gloss over the real meanings behind the Tipi art, shields, dreamcatchers, etc. And quite of bit of that really isn’t up for public consumption or it would take so much time to really delve into what it MEANS (plus, teaching deep spiritual matters that are NOT Christian is greatly frowned upon). And if you aren’t willing to KNOW this stuff and teach it correctly, I strongly feel like you shouldn’t be teaching water-downed (and typically super INCORRECT) crap. So I flat out refuse to allow it in my after school program.
I need to get cracking on my goals. I’m already making tentative plans for my actual birthday. I’ve taken the day off of work because fuck working on my birthday. ::laughs:: I plan to get my hair cut – talking at least 8 inches. I am tempted to do some coloring in my hair…but I’m not sure on that one just yet. I plan to get sushi for lunch, as David will be at work (he hates sushi). And then that weekend, we’ll be going to the Fort Worth Zoo – past and present military people get in free with a plus one. So we’ll pay for parking, but we’ll get in for free. Woohoo! I am looking forward to being back at the Fort Worth Zoo, taking photos. That makes my heart happy and I need to do more of that.
So I went ahead and purchased the wand I was talking about yesterday. The pull was still strong and still steady. I want this wand. Sadly, it’s shipping from Australia, so it will be a while before it arrives. I hate waiting. ::chuckles::
I received this awesome postcard today from the Holocaust Stamp Project that I donated stamps to a few months ago. They surpassed their goal of 11 million stamps back in September. I’m glad I could be a part of that.
So today I spent most of my work day putting together the shark games the students and I made. The students colored the sharks and cut them out. I then cut out the sharks’ mouths and assembled the little games. They’ll get to play with them on Wednesday, when Gail comes out for our “day of play”. I am so ready for that bullshit to be behind us.
Which then means, we get to fast forward to the week before Thanksgiving. There’s going to be a gymnastics group coming into the gym for the entire week with all their stuff…which means that for the entire week, we can’t use the gym. So we’ve gotta come up with some things to keep the students occupied just in case the weather decides to turn shitty (which is always does the week that the gymnastic group is here) and we can’t take them outside. I’ve talked to Jess about teaming up with Sarah for the Winter Party planning and she’s game. So hopefully I can talk to Sarah about that tomorrow and get her and Jess working on that. I am asking Alaina (Laine) and Alexia (Lexie) to come up with some autumn crafts to do the week before Thanksgiving. I personally am NOT a fan of Thanksgiving in its mythical US story form and I cannot stand the cheap “Indian” crafts they come up with that completely gloss over the real meanings behind the Tipi art, shields, dreamcatchers, etc. And quite of bit of that really isn’t up for public consumption or it would take so much time to really delve into what it MEANS (plus, teaching deep spiritual matters that are NOT Christian is greatly frowned upon). And if you aren’t willing to KNOW this stuff and teach it correctly, I strongly feel like you shouldn’t be teaching water-downed (and typically super INCORRECT) crap. So I flat out refuse to allow it in my after school program.
I need to get cracking on my goals. I’m already making tentative plans for my actual birthday. I’ve taken the day off of work because fuck working on my birthday. ::laughs:: I plan to get my hair cut – talking at least 8 inches. I am tempted to do some coloring in my hair…but I’m not sure on that one just yet. I plan to get sushi for lunch, as David will be at work (he hates sushi). And then that weekend, we’ll be going to the Fort Worth Zoo – past and present military people get in free with a plus one. So we’ll pay for parking, but we’ll get in for free. Woohoo! I am looking forward to being back at the Fort Worth Zoo, taking photos. That makes my heart happy and I need to do more of that.
So I went ahead and purchased the wand I was talking about yesterday. The pull was still strong and still steady. I want this wand. Sadly, it’s shipping from Australia, so it will be a while before it arrives. I hate waiting. ::chuckles::
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