Last week was actually a really nice week. I now have two friends! Tracy became friends with one of our Americorps co-workers, Owen, and talked about me all the time and so we finally all got together and hung out. Tracy made us dinner and we chilled and whined about our crappy jobs... ha ha ha... But seriously, we kinda did.. I think we're going to try and make the dinner thing a weekly tradition. On Wednesday I went to the Water Festival. It was at a pretty nice private school and I sat in a classroom with 4th graders and assisted as this guy taught them about water filtration (apparantly Birmingham has some of the cleanest water in the nation.... and that's why it tastes like chlorine... I miss my St. Paul water. It tastes like dirt, but I love it). We gave the kids some stuff and challenged them to make a filtration system. They had a dixie cup, a coffee filter, cotton balls, beans and rice. The water had dirt, sequins, oil and vinegar in it. They had a lot of fun and I enjoyed watching them make connections about what they'd learned previously and putting it together with what they were learning right then. I love when you can see the "aha" moment on a kids face. Thursday we had a partial day and then got paid (yay!) and we had Friday off. I had another lovely weekend with Bobby :) we went to lunch and went and saw Hereafter (watch for my review here) and then split a piece of over priced, but super delicious Reese's chocolate cake cheesecake... The highlight of the day was skyping with most of my family :) It was so nice to see all of them (and my puppy!) and they got to meet (sort of) Bobby. He was really nervous, but I think they liked him!
Oh, the highlight of the week was buying my plane ticket home!!!!!! I will be home December 18-Jan1. I'm SOOOOO excited to see everyone (especially my puppy!). Although, I'm sure I'll be longing for the warmer weather that we have here (still in the 80s!)
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