Wednesday June 6th.
David came back today. His face was not nearly as bandaged as Christine was making me think he would be. He was back and full of energy. A blessing and a curse. Juliet cried today. People got finished before she did, so she had to cry. I stood with her as she finished filling the answers (all of which she knew). Kelly also cried during playtime. It seems like all of the girls want to get the pink and yellow blocks. Kelly took longer to eat than the rest of the class, so she was not able to find as many pink and yellow blocks. I am thinking of taking all of them away. The girls all love pink and yellow (yellow more than pink). The boys play with every color, pink, yellow blue, red, green, brown... They care more about building. The girls seem to care more about the color and just holding the colored block is more important than making anything.
No real thoughts in most of my other classes. Australia and Denmark were normal as well as Canada. I had my first one on one with Chloe from Canada today. She seemed nervous. When she talks to me in the teachers room she is quite the wordsmith. Her talking to me in a one on one... not so much. She seemed more apprehensive. It was almost like she was concerned about getting a bad grade than she was on just talking. We started off in the counseling room (slightly intimidating) and moved to the gym. Once we were at the gym she felt better about talking.
My Greece class had a lot of Energy. They are my 3rd graders. They knew it was a 4 day weekend so they did not have much attention. I let them play a little 공기 (Gonggi). The game is almost like jacks, but not quite. I do not know how to describe it... it is about throwing up a piece of plastic, picking up another piece of plastic, then catching what you thew up. The girls all love that game. I also let them play several other simple games during the lesson. Just popluar games like the handslap and thumb war games. They tried to teach me some Korean ones... but I never quite understood them.
After school, Ama Sarah and I went to Costco. We ate dinner there. Hotdogs and a chicken roll. Delicious. We went there to pick up some food for tomorrow. We needed hamburger meat and hotdogs. We are planning on going to a beach tomorrow and grilling. At Costco we ran into 3 students. Two of Ama's and one of mine. Soo from Denmark class was mine. She waved and she came over to me. I picked her up! She went back to her mom. I saw her once again and she was jumping motioning for me to come over to her. I did. I gave her another hug. I showed her that I still had the I love you note written on my hand (that she wrote). She always tries to get me to say hello in Korean to her at ECC. Well when she said it to me, I responded in Korean and I also said goodbye in Korean. The look on her face was priceless. They left. Ama and Sarah and I bought all of the rest of our stuff. We came home, and we played a game of settlers outside of the GS. We all (Ama, Sarah, Hudson, Taylor, Sam, Carrie) all sat out and just talked and sipped beer. We are all going to leave to go to the beach early tomorrow, so none of us did anything crazy. We are meeting up early in the morning so we will get a full day at the beach.
On that note I am off to sleep.
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