Update

I woke up this morning at 5:45 to cook breakfast for a group of college students and it is midnight:15. How did I get roped into this? Tomorrow we are required to do sexual harassment training, which is funny because:

A. Of the eleven staff members here, 8 of them are either in serious relationships with each other or are married to each other. One more has a girlfriend elsewhere

and B. We have three weeks left before the end of the year.

It will be a party, for sure. At least I get to sleep in until 10!!

This last week was pretty crazy, just like every week, I suppose. I had to teach two classes I had never taught before. One was a class about the weather, which I made quite informative, but I feel like I fell short in the making it interesting department.

The other class was an invasive species mapping class. I used the information I had gained by doing research on invasive grasses of the arid steppelands of the eastern part of the state and adapted it to 8th graders. We collected soil temperature, distribution %, declination and general appearance data and pooled our separate data collections to create a complete set of data for a number of locations around the area. In the end, they presented their findings and we walked our way through the scientific method. I had their principal shadowing this class, so I was extremely nervous. On his eval of camp, he said this particular class was his favorite!! I think that means I did something right. The kinds ended up loving it too. One particular girl mentioned that she thought it was going to be boring because of the name, "Ecological Mapping" and should be changed to something cooler like "killer plants!". All that made me feel okay with screwing up the weather class, which I understand is not necessarily a legitimate trade-off.

I'm about to pass out. Goodnight, friends. I've got much more to talk about that I didn't get to.

Ducks are # 1 in the country! Cool!