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So I'm back in the city. It's so nice to be back because hardly anyone is here. I love it. I miss some people but they'll be back soon enough. I really wish I could have stayed in NH longer but at least I got to go. It kind of refreshes me, mostly because of the awesome people that I stay with. Aside from skiing, I learned to drive a manual car. So exciting. It was one of my little goals. Now I just need to teach myself the acoustic guitar and create a website. I'm a dork. I know.
I was so relaxed-I always am up in NH- but I got a migraine on New Years Eve. It hit me a little after 11 I think and I could not get out of bed-except to throw up (sorry) until 8pm. I hadn't eaten anything all day, so it was particularly unpleasant and I didn't have my meds with me. I left the next day for NJ, which I really did not want to do. But I figured I should go back to get some things done so I could head back to the city. It was fun though. I don't really remember exactly what I did all of last week; it seems so long ago. But I did visit the school and work at the coffee shop once. I'm going back Thursday night to work Friday morning.
Emily, Angela, and Amy came back to the city with me last weekend. So much fun. it was just for one night but really no one was in Rubin and we had a blast. We just roamed around and came upon 'cafe anyway,' which was expensively delicious. I had a huge crepe (notice how i't snot spelled "crape"- had to do it) with mushrooms in it and Emily, Robyn, and I shared some red wine. It was beautiful. We didn't do anything crazy. Emily and Angela don't have id's, but it's not like Angela would do anything with us. Instead we hung out around the dorm and drank and played card games. (Angela had water) lol. I went back home with Emily, Angela, Amy and Robyn to babysit the next day and then to church on Sunday and got a ride back with Robyn to the city.
I've been working at school, but I have much more fun at the coffee shop. coffee or ghetto third graders? hmmm. No, seriously, most of the kids are really fun to be with. This morning I sat in one of the empty desks and read Ramona the Brave. I used to love those books. Another sad reminder today. The kids were doing a proofreading exercise and I was going around to help all of them. They all had the same question, but I also noticed that they all didn't ask about something they ALL had wrong. And it's even more frustrating. The sentence was "Me and Marcos ride the bus together." They were supposed to 'correct the sentence.' So every single one of them simply added a period on the end of the sentence, leaving the incorrect order and first-person singular. So the teacher goes over it and gets to that sentence and one of the kids raises her hands and tells the teacher exactly what I told her-the obvious: to change it to "Marcos and I." And the teacher says no. That's right but 'we're not getting into that yeat.' So they were probably even more confused. How could they not have done that yet? Obviously they're supposed to know it since it was on the sheet. It's so frustrating. half the kids-honestly-are staying back because the teachers are incompetent. ridiculous. one thing that was sort of encouraging though, they had a don't to doesn't correction. The wonders of the NY public school system.
I'm going to work again tomorrow at 8:30 but only until around 1. That's more than I can bear. I was supposed to start research this week, but the professor got some big assignment and he's the head of graduate admissions, so I don't officially start until March now. But I will be doing minor stuff in the lab. Amy sent me the water polo schedule today. We're playing each other on my birthday at Cornell. lol. Time to go watch Friends and get some sleep.
I was so relaxed-I always am up in NH- but I got a migraine on New Years Eve. It hit me a little after 11 I think and I could not get out of bed-except to throw up (sorry) until 8pm. I hadn't eaten anything all day, so it was particularly unpleasant and I didn't have my meds with me. I left the next day for NJ, which I really did not want to do. But I figured I should go back to get some things done so I could head back to the city. It was fun though. I don't really remember exactly what I did all of last week; it seems so long ago. But I did visit the school and work at the coffee shop once. I'm going back Thursday night to work Friday morning.
Emily, Angela, and Amy came back to the city with me last weekend. So much fun. it was just for one night but really no one was in Rubin and we had a blast. We just roamed around and came upon 'cafe anyway,' which was expensively delicious. I had a huge crepe (notice how i't snot spelled "crape"- had to do it) with mushrooms in it and Emily, Robyn, and I shared some red wine. It was beautiful. We didn't do anything crazy. Emily and Angela don't have id's, but it's not like Angela would do anything with us. Instead we hung out around the dorm and drank and played card games. (Angela had water) lol. I went back home with Emily, Angela, Amy and Robyn to babysit the next day and then to church on Sunday and got a ride back with Robyn to the city.
I've been working at school, but I have much more fun at the coffee shop. coffee or ghetto third graders? hmmm. No, seriously, most of the kids are really fun to be with. This morning I sat in one of the empty desks and read Ramona the Brave. I used to love those books. Another sad reminder today. The kids were doing a proofreading exercise and I was going around to help all of them. They all had the same question, but I also noticed that they all didn't ask about something they ALL had wrong. And it's even more frustrating. The sentence was "Me and Marcos ride the bus together." They were supposed to 'correct the sentence.' So every single one of them simply added a period on the end of the sentence, leaving the incorrect order and first-person singular. So the teacher goes over it and gets to that sentence and one of the kids raises her hands and tells the teacher exactly what I told her-the obvious: to change it to "Marcos and I." And the teacher says no. That's right but 'we're not getting into that yeat.' So they were probably even more confused. How could they not have done that yet? Obviously they're supposed to know it since it was on the sheet. It's so frustrating. half the kids-honestly-are staying back because the teachers are incompetent. ridiculous. one thing that was sort of encouraging though, they had a don't to doesn't correction. The wonders of the NY public school system.
I'm going to work again tomorrow at 8:30 but only until around 1. That's more than I can bear. I was supposed to start research this week, but the professor got some big assignment and he's the head of graduate admissions, so I don't officially start until March now. But I will be doing minor stuff in the lab. Amy sent me the water polo schedule today. We're playing each other on my birthday at Cornell. lol. Time to go watch Friends and get some sleep.