What's New

Here we are once again ready to begin a new school year. This year will be quite different. I think about half the faculty is new--including the Principal and Assistant Principal. We will be in a new building. We will have so much more technology than we have ever had before. The students should be about the same, but a year older. I will be teaching Spanish One and Geometry. Geometry is my favorite subject. I still have to catch up to some of the changes in how we teach it, but it remains my favorite.
I look forward to seeing my students again. I have seen some of them over the summer in the grocery store or around town. But some I have not seen since school was out. They'll come in with tans from the summer and stories about where they worked or the vacations they took. I'm sure not many of them will be ready to get back into the swing of things. On my own vacation I met folks who go to school year round. They get two weeks off at regular intevals and then they go back. I still like having two months off, but I can remember when it used to be three months off.
The last week of summer vacation I am busy trying to visit all my friends and finish projects I've started. I am knitting a satchel purse following a pattern from Interweave Knits magazine. I have knitted the sides and bottom. I am about to begin the front and back. Naturally I have saved the most difficult part for last and naturally school is starting as I begin the most difficult part. I am sure it will get easier as I get into it. Once I finish I will get to assemble the purse with a liner, a box like frame, the knitted outside and the extra hardware. I'm not too sure about that part. I also need to work on projects for Christmas presents. Don't tell anyone, but I think most folks are getting market bags this year.
If you ask me what's new at school this year, I'll have to say "just about everything."

Wow

Wow it's hot. I think it seems hotter because I just returned from a vacation in a slightly cooler place in the mountains. When it gets to the hot part of summer it feels so good to get away to a cooler place, but then so much hotter to return. A few years ago I went to Alaska for a couple of weeks in July. I had to wear a jacket most of the time . We took a couple of boat rides and on those I had to wear a rain jacket over another jacket. Even then I was still cold. I don't remember the high temps when I returned home. I just remember it felt like 120 degrees even though it was probably only in the 90's. When I take kids on youth mission trips in the summer I have to work in the yard a lot to get used to the heat before I go. When I was a kid someone would always say something about frying an egg on the sidewalk. I don't know why you would want to fry an egg on the sidewalk. But I suppose you could. All I can say is, "It's hot."