Tricia's Partial Mutterings

me the staller

first day of work... are ya ready for the story? well, first of all, i get really nervous before big days, so of course i couldnt sleep. you know me, im such the staller. i think i was up until 1am before i decided that i would try to go to sleep. i do this all the time, especially before long car trips. nice, when i really need the sleep i know. so i think the first time i woke up was at 3:40 and looked at the clock and turned back over. the next time was early, still dark and i was debating if i should look at the clock or not, and at the very moment my alarm went off! still dark! nuts! it was like 6:05. damn early! so i rolled out and grabbed a shower and a bowl of cereal and went on my merry way.

got there at the same time as heidi. shes great. :o) morning was a little weird. she put me in the learning room with all the computers and i chilled in there all by my lonesome until about 9:30 or so. kids came and went. did homework, played on the computers. yah, they looked at me kinda funny. like whos the new chick? i think one of the best parts of my morning was when i talked to this little boy. he was really shy and a girl told me it was his first day... and i was like, you know what? today is my first day too, so its ok. it was just super cute. awwwwww, i know.

so all the kids disappeared at about 9:20 and we cleaned up. then heidi took me out for bagels and coffee... well, i had a muffin and no coffee, but its all the same. we went back and talked and ate. i was off at 10, but i ended up staying until about 11:15, yes, me the staller once again. :o)

the afternoon was pretty cool. i had to be there at 2 and ended up sleeping in between with numerous snooze hits. maybe i should get to bed a little earlier... nah, i think that liquid crack called starbucks was pretty good today. i was in the learning center again. well, thats where i am always going to be. i met my coordinator person. shes super nice and knows what shes doing so that was really good. i also got introduced to all the kids at announcements so now they dont look at me so weird. it made me feel more at home which was nice. so the afternoon i played connect four and helped kids with math mainly. dude, its been a while since ive done algebra. you tell me what the property of 9x6=6x9 means... yah, then you feel lame for wanting to read the chapter to help the kid.

the kids seem pretty cool and they are starting to warm up to me already. im learning names pretty quick, so hopefully by the end of the week ill have them all down. which would be pretty darn impressive because i would say there are like 80 kids maybe more... dont quote me on that because i cant count!

oh! its also super weird to work with boys... and there are so many more boys than girls! yay for girl scout camp.

yah, heidi liked the shoes... she was like whoa when she first noticed them... they are super bright. i was tripping all day though because ive noticed i drag my feet a little bit and the tred gets stuck on the carpet. oh yah... she told a kid to call me frisbee. and this other chick tossed a scrunchie to her friend and said, "FRISBEE," yah, i totally looked and almost answered!