First Day at Work

Went in first thing at 8:45 am, met the vice-principal and got a room to set up in. Over the day, we slowly got ourselves organized - went to buy markers at the convenience store, printed out posters, coloured them in and walked around, chatted with a few teachers here and there. We are suppose to work with Sec 4s and 5s (the equivalent of Grade 10 and 11) but mostly the younger kids, Sec 2s and 3s, poked their noses in.

After 4 pm, we came home. There was a Family Day festival happening so we put on our snowpants and went tobogganing. The firefighters had set up a giant snowhill and monitored the kids (and adults). It's been so many years since I last took a crazy carpet! I got a good sweat out of pulling a few of them up the hill (as they sat on their toboggans). Here is a picture H. and I tobogganing together.

On our way home, we stopped at the grocery store because L. wanted a bag of coffee. The selection for fresh vegetables is really tiny. There were two large baskets of orange and yellow onions, but in the fridge, there were probably in total 5 peppers and 4 tomatoes. As we left, we saw Max, one of the dogs. All the dogs run around the town and they are very playful - both with each other and people. There are no leashes, no tags. They wander up and down the street, sometimes accompanying their owner's young children to school and back. Max came up to me and wanted to sniff me - he gave me a good crash in the nose and it hurt a little.

We got home, took off our wet clothing and made a pot of Japanese curry with peppers, onions, mushrooms, carrots and sweet potatoes. I also cut up panfried 2 Tofurkey sausages for everyone. There is still rice left over. Everyone enjoyed it - had a salad to go with it and we chitchatted. Everyone is just chilling now. I am off to shower.