The End is Near!

Well, that title sounded a lot more dooms-day than it should, simply because the end is a fabulous thing! We went on our year end field trip today and it was so much fun. I'd love to publish some pictures, but that would be entirely inappropriate and breaking laws and such. I am a rebel (ha), but that's just too far. We went the museum in the morning, and learned about Native culture in the past and took a tour. We got to watch some Native dancing and it was a lot of fun. The kids were really into it, although they were really hungry about half way through the morning because they didn't get to have their usual snack.

Then after lunch, we went swimming, and I got in the water with them this year. That was a whole lot of fun too. I never understood how parents could take their kids swimming because all they did was sit there and watch them and such, but it's the best thing in the world! They're all so proud of what they can do that they all want you to watch, and the rest of the time, you just play! Of course it's very different from what you would do if you were swimming with a bunch of adults, but there you go. A good time was had by all.

Now, all I have to do before the holidays is have fun with the kids, and the awards ceremony. This is the first moment that I could say that things are winding down, and that's because the report cards are done, and I'm finally done all the other things that I need to get done before I don't see the kids for 2 months. On Thursday, I have to come and clean up the classroom and get it ready for cleaning and welcoming the kids back. Would anyone like to come and help? :)

"Winding Down"

As most people in the world would say, things are finally winding down for the year. Yeah right. I'm just about completely exhausted and I just can't wait to sleep in for 2 months. (Tee hee hee) On the up side, I finished my report cards, and after I finish work tonight (in about 2 hours, and yes, it's already after 6pm) I can just enjoy the weekend. Things at the end of the year just get crazier and crazier until all of a sudden they come to a crashing halt at 3:30 pm on the last day. But then I get the cleaning bug and want to toss everything in sight so that I can start fresh in August. It's very cathartic.

It also surprises me that people are surprised that teachers look forward to the end of the year. Why wouldn't you be happy that you're about to start the working world's best benefit? It's not so much that I'm glad to get away from the kids (although the break is theraputic for both parties), as that I finally get to do all those things that I can't because I'm working all day.

Anyhow, I should run, otherwise I'll still be here when the alarm turns itself on, and that's never a good situation. :)

Random thoughts . . .

So, I don't really have much to say, but it's been a while since I posted anything. The main reason it that I got tonsillitis this week, and since fighting off a persistant 2 day fever and swollen and painful tonsils all week, I'm still a little exhausted. I only took one day off work, because with the end of the year fast approaching and PATs, there's just no time to be sick. But thankfully it only was really bad for the one day, and it's been tolerable for the rest. I would like to take this moment to thank the creators of Extra-Strength Advil.

Well, this begins the random thoughts that run through my head when I'm having an ADD moment.

Last night, my cat tried to run up a wall to catch a mosquito that got in the house and he made it up about 6 feet. No, he didn't even use anything to launch himself. (This is an old picture of Oscar, he's much darker now, and bigger)

I love my iPOD.

Trent went to the river last night and got eaten alive. Poor guy.

This week, all the kids from Kindergarten to Grade 4 got pencils and trees from the MD for their 50th anniversary. I thought that was pretty cool. Then we talked about how we all change the world with every step we take, every tree we plant, every time we drive, etc.

There are only 9 working days until I'm on 2 months of holidays. I know people hate me for it, but I cannot wait to finally be able to have a social life and catch up on taking care of things in my personal life. We say that Canadian weather is 10 months of winter and 2 months of bad sledding, well my life is 10 months of taking care of everyone around me, and 2 months to recover from it. I don't know where the connection between the first saying and what I just said is, but like I said, I'm having an ADD moment.

Well, I should probably get outta here because I'm sure most of you stopped reading about three points ago, so really I'm just talking to myself, but that's not really different than usual. :)

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Procrastination

When I was in my freshman year at college, my friend, Anne-Marie, and I were going to write a book entitled 101 ways to procrastinate. (Writing the book was going to be method #1) Is it a surprise that we procrastinated on that project and it remains incomplete? Here, years later, I find myself using many of the original techniques, although I have managed to add in a few. Some recently added examples of procrastination are, blogging, iPODing, playing with my pets, etc. Today I should be making a math test (alas, the end of the school year brings on these necessary evils), and here I am, procrastinating by blogging. I'm even procrastinating making a deeply intellectual blog by writing about procrastination. I wonder how many times I can use procratination or any derivitive thereof in a single blog? I think I should procrastinate on that one. Au revior! (I'm also going to procrastinate looking that up to see if I spelled it right.)

Feed the Addiction

For my birthday, I got an iPOD from my husband (after some very subtle hinting). It's fantastic. However, it's just added one more addiction to the growing list. There are things that I really need to do, but are incredibly boring without something to listen to, but the iPOD takes a bit of effort to get everything that I want on it. Sigh. :) Toodles!

Fun Sports Day

Today we had our sports day in the afternoon. It was a lot of fun. (It was actually called "Fun Sports Day") :) Is it sad that I think little kids are so incredibly cute at everything they do?! I think the best part of all was to sit and chat with kids that I normally don't get a chance to do so. And I got to hang out with kids from my class last year. All in all, it was a really great afternoon. It was even almost warm enough for me! I think it only got up to about 26 degrees, and there was wind and some clouds. Does anyone have ideas about stations that we could use for next year? I think the only glitch was the older kids remember doing much the same thing as last year. Oh, well. It's what you do to maintain a semblance of a life outside of work.