15 September 2012
13 September 2012
Toilets and tiredness
As I sit here waiting for the moment when the parents will arrive in my room for Curriculum Night (Open House), I am trying to think of moments that tickle me or things that will keep me alert and focused.
One moment from today:
Student came into the office and just stood there.
Secretary: What is it?
Student: Hmm.
Secretary: What is it? You know you can't just come in here to hang out, right?
Student: I know. My stomach hurts.
Secretary: Well. Do you need to use the bathroom?
Student: I don't know.
Secretary: Well, go try and use the bathroom. Just sit there and see if there is a release. If you have to, go ahead and rub your knees and lean forward a bit to make it release more easily.
Only two and a half more hours, then a forty-five minute commute home to make this a 16-hour day from door step to door step. Hopefully, tonight, I get more than 5 hours of sleep.
One moment from today:
Student came into the office and just stood there.
Secretary: What is it?
Student: Hmm.
Secretary: What is it? You know you can't just come in here to hang out, right?
Student: I know. My stomach hurts.
Secretary: Well. Do you need to use the bathroom?
Student: I don't know.
Secretary: Well, go try and use the bathroom. Just sit there and see if there is a release. If you have to, go ahead and rub your knees and lean forward a bit to make it release more easily.
Only two and a half more hours, then a forty-five minute commute home to make this a 16-hour day from door step to door step. Hopefully, tonight, I get more than 5 hours of sleep.
10 September 2012
Accidental fashion
During my Saturday wandering through the city to see what I can find, I stumbled on New York's Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week.
Really cool people watching!
I don't think I saw anyone famous, though I did see some women standing with a ton of photographers around them snapping shots. I assumed they must be models of some sort.
I saw people in ridiculous heels. Some of them walked well, others were stumbling to the nearest wall so they could sit and take a load off for a while.
I also saw a man in a fairly nice evening gown - high heels, full chest hair and all. He walked really well.
09 September 2012
What I am is what I am
I am still getting used to actually saying I live in NYC. At least twice a week, I think to myself, "I really live here (either with a question mark or an exclamation, depending on what is occurring).
I am a teacher. I love teaching people of all ages about things of all topics.
I am a friend. But, I am really not good at keeping in regular contact with people. Before I moved to NYC, my mother and father (in StL) reminded me that I rarely visited or called them while I lived only 15 minutes away - they told me that I had to keep in touch more regularly after I moved hundreds of miles away. I don't like that I do it, but I am always there for people and it is always as though no time has passed.
I am a former athlete who is really struggling with the new body I have. I don't mind having curves, but am really struggling with the lessening of muscle and the addition of fat to places I never knew it could be. It's been over a decade since I was competitive, but for a long time after, I still had a great body. I guess since hitting 30, my body has rejected its former self. I know I should accept it, but I don't want to.
I am becoming more open and opinionated as I get older. And I don't really care to hold back my thoughts all the time as I used to when I was younger.
I am a people watcher. And this is the perfect city for me to do it - though I have to be more secretive about it on the subways... can't gaze at people for too long.
This was hard, this was my Stream of Consciousness Sunday post. Today's prompt, "I am _____." You can link up or read other's I Am statements by visiting Jana's Thinking Place each Sunday.. You can write on this prompt. You can write on any other topic. It is five minutes of free writing.
It is usually pretty cathartic.
I am a teacher. I love teaching people of all ages about things of all topics.
I am a friend. But, I am really not good at keeping in regular contact with people. Before I moved to NYC, my mother and father (in StL) reminded me that I rarely visited or called them while I lived only 15 minutes away - they told me that I had to keep in touch more regularly after I moved hundreds of miles away. I don't like that I do it, but I am always there for people and it is always as though no time has passed.
I am a former athlete who is really struggling with the new body I have. I don't mind having curves, but am really struggling with the lessening of muscle and the addition of fat to places I never knew it could be. It's been over a decade since I was competitive, but for a long time after, I still had a great body. I guess since hitting 30, my body has rejected its former self. I know I should accept it, but I don't want to.
I am becoming more open and opinionated as I get older. And I don't really care to hold back my thoughts all the time as I used to when I was younger.
I am a people watcher. And this is the perfect city for me to do it - though I have to be more secretive about it on the subways... can't gaze at people for too long.
This was hard, this was my Stream of Consciousness Sunday post. Today's prompt, "I am _____." You can link up or read other's I Am statements by visiting Jana's Thinking Place each Sunday.. You can write on this prompt. You can write on any other topic. It is five minutes of free writing.
It is usually pretty cathartic.
08 September 2012
06 September 2012
Iron teacher-chef
I somehow forgot to write about my time at the school retreat last week.
Awesome group of people who seem to truly care about the students. They also worked at team building with the staff members.
One of the activities we did was so freaking awesome, that I had to take pictures and send them to people, and now share with you.
We did an Iron Chef competition in the PROFESSIONAL kitchen of the hotel where we stayed.
So awesome!!
We first were prepped with information of how it would work, then we had to scrub down doctor-style all the way up to the elbows.
We received chef's hats and shirts (just like on tv, though I didn't have the opportunity to write my name onto it since I didn't want to make my hands unsanitary).
We were then divided into three groups and taken to the AMAZING kitchen.
There was a large table full of proteins (shrimp, sausage, beef, pork, chicken, mussels), and another table with various fruits, veggies, side dishes, etc. Another table had a ton of seasoning items, and there was also a 3" bin of each salt, sugar, and pepper.
My group chose me as the team leader and we started trying to decide what to make. We decided on a shrimp appetizer of coconut shrimp (I made) and sweet and sour teriyaki shrimp. Our main dish was a linguine with wine sauce of mussels.
We had to have a plate for the three judges and also make enough for the thirty+ teachers.
What we made was going to be dinner for the night, so it had to be good.
Here are images of my teams final dishes:
Awesome group of people who seem to truly care about the students. They also worked at team building with the staff members.
One of the activities we did was so freaking awesome, that I had to take pictures and send them to people, and now share with you.
We did an Iron Chef competition in the PROFESSIONAL kitchen of the hotel where we stayed.
So awesome!!
We first were prepped with information of how it would work, then we had to scrub down doctor-style all the way up to the elbows.
We received chef's hats and shirts (just like on tv, though I didn't have the opportunity to write my name onto it since I didn't want to make my hands unsanitary).
We were then divided into three groups and taken to the AMAZING kitchen.
There was a large table full of proteins (shrimp, sausage, beef, pork, chicken, mussels), and another table with various fruits, veggies, side dishes, etc. Another table had a ton of seasoning items, and there was also a 3" bin of each salt, sugar, and pepper.
My group chose me as the team leader and we started trying to decide what to make. We decided on a shrimp appetizer of coconut shrimp (I made) and sweet and sour teriyaki shrimp. Our main dish was a linguine with wine sauce of mussels.
We had to have a plate for the three judges and also make enough for the thirty+ teachers.
What we made was going to be dinner for the night, so it had to be good.
Here are images of my teams final dishes:
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| The judges didn't pick our dishes as the winner, but they did say nice things about our food. |
So much fun!!
I hope to be able to work in a real kitchen again some day. So much easier than in a home kitchen - everything you could need is right there. Didn't hurt to have pro chefs there to help out with quick questions and to gather supplies we needed from the back rooms either. Also didn't hurt that we didn't have to wash any of the numerous dishes we messed.
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