Day 7 - Another Day in...

As some of you know, my dog, Ginger, decided to run away yesterday afternoon around 4pm. My family and I called for her, drove around the neighborhood a million times, saw two coyotes and began thinking the worst. There was virtually no sleep to be had in the house last night. I was tossing and turning and watched the same episodes of Big Bang Theory over and over again. Thankfully at 7:30am (5 minutes before I had to leave for school) the phone rang and Ginger had been found. She had slept outside in the cold with scary animals who could easily eat her. She's home safe now and we went to the vet earlier today - she's going to be all right.

So why am I telling you this? I was in no state to be going to school prior to the phone call, so I called Ian Kennedy, my supervisor, and he was so understanding and so supportive that he told me to take the day off to continue looking for Ginger and to come to school when I was ready. Not two minutes after I hung up was Ginger found. I took half a day off to go pick her up, warm her up, feed her, and take her to the vet because everyone else in the house was either already gone or heading out the door. I arrived at school by lunch time and was welcomed with sympathy and support. I'm not even a member of the staff but they treated me like family.

The rest of the day went swimmingly. I sat in on 2 grade 9 English classes who both went to the library for a presentation on "Presentations." The lesson was geared toward how to make an effective and memorable presentation. Most students use PowerPoint or some other form of technology and load it up with their exact speech or they include a lot of bullets with a lot of text that the audience doesn't read anyway. The presentation connected nicely with the assignments they had to do on Social Justice. It was a fabulous presentation and it seemed like the students really understood the lesson. I also got to ref the junior girls volleyball game! It was so much fun to be a part of the school culture like that! My school won all three of their games and the school spirit was AWESOME!

Until Next Time, LC