Counting Down

Many have asked the question and the answer is , yes, I am counting down the days. I can now count them on one hand! I only have five more days as board substitute in kindergarten. There are some things that I will miss. Getting ready in the morning without any interruption. (my entire family is still asleep at that hour.) The pay check. Some of the students.

Each week I have a different duty at dismissal time - bus riders, car riders, day care or second loaders. Car riders is the most difficult. All I have to do is keep 50 kindergarteners reasonably quiet for 30 minutes while they sit on the floor waiting for someone to pick them up. It's a bit like nailing jell-o to a tree but not as much fun. Today was a bit more interesting. Two of the people who usually do car rider duty on a daily basis were not there. So I was asked to be the one to call the kids names using the megaphone. I thought that would be fun. I had to hold the megaphone with one hand and a walkie talkie with the other. There was a teacher outside and she would call the names of the students to me on the walkie and then I would use the megaphone to call the student. I wasn't familiar with many of the names, especially the last names. Hearing them for the first time via a walkie talkie was difficult. And do you know how heavy a megaphone is? If I did that every day and switched arms from time to time I would consider it weight training. Perhaps this experience just pointed out a need. . .

Yes, just five more school days. Then I can think about organizing my bedroom, Thanksgiving and going to the gym!

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