Olympics

Each year our school has Olympic competitions such as long jump, bean bag toss, and 100 yard dash. My class did awesome. This year we took home lots of medals. (My class is the one with the crowns we were England. )

Field Trip

This year we took our field trip to the zoo. It was fun for the kids a little stressful for me. One of my students was really naughty, but I'm still laughing about how funny it was. During lunch time he ran away from the group, bought a ticket, and got on the merry go round all by himself. When I found him he knew he was busted.

Star Trek

Four Burger King meals later David was able to collect all four Star Trek cups. I know it was difficult to eat fast food for four days in a row, but I'm glad he sacrificed his stomach for the both of us. On Saturday morning we also were able to see the movie. I'm not much of a sci-fi fan, but I enjoyed it.

David's illness

On Monday David called me at school around 9:30 and told me he was running a fever and needed to be taken to the doctor. I made arrangements with my principal to leave work early and rushed home to help him. I took him to Stanford Medical Center where he was tested for strep throat and the swine flu. Due to the outbreak they almost quarantined David in the medical center; however, when then found out we lived off campus we were free to go home. The test results took 24 hours to develop so I told my boss I would be taking Tuesday off too . Both test were negative, but luckily David's symptoms went away on their own. It must have been a nasty virus. I'm glad he is okay and I also got two days off school.

Friday Night Knitting Club

On Wednesday we had our monthly book club meeting at a coffee shop. We reviewed the book Friday Night Knitting Club. The most ironic thing about our meeting was at the table next to us there was actually a knitting club meeting. I wish I would have had my camera to take their picture.

Swine Flu

This Thursday we had a staff meeting about the swine flu although there are only 17 cases in the whole state of California. If by chance someone in our school catches swine flu they have to shut down the whole school for a week and we have to call all our students and tell them not to come back the next day. I would normally jump at the chance to have a week vacation except for the fact we would have to make it up and I would have to disinfect my whole classroom.

Puzzle

I decided it would be fun to start a puzzle. I thought maybe it would be something fun to do while I watched TV at night; however, this puzzle soon became my life. I would think about finishing the puzzle at school, Sometimes I even left school early and rushed home to work on it, and I ended up sitting for hours every night staring at the pieces wondering if I would ever complete it, but finally on Sunday I did. So here are the pictures.