Can We Say the Bad Word NOW?

^My favorite quote from a movie (you'll find out soon which one). Soooooo….I’m planning on this post to be very short. There hasn’t been much to happen in the last week. The rest of school last week was uneventful. For the most part kids were good in class and the week passed without much of a hitch.

I'm on the far right,
but don't forget to look at the floor...

This weekend we held two parties in the apartments. The first one was just to hang out with friends and it was. I got to see a lot of people I feel like I haven’t seen in a while due to travelling and being busy at school. At this one we played a game similar to the game called True American on the show New Girl. It was quite challenging and really hard to remember all the rules. Ultimately, the game is Candyland but the squares to jump on are actually pieces of furniture like couches, chairs, rugs and pillows. The floor itself is lava so you can’t step on it without “losing”. Beyond that, there’s a lot of smaller games within the overall Candyland idea. The first thing you do is pick a number between 1 and 5. You look for the numbers that are the number above what you picked and just remember that anytime they move a square, you move. Starting with the youngest and going to the oldest, one at a time you must either start a quote that someone else has to finish or you can have everyone pick numbers between 1 and 5, except this time it means nothing except if you are the only number of your kind you “win” that round. There are many other pieces of the game, but overall, it really doesn’t make sense because the goal isn’t to win and I’m sure I’m confusing people already.

Glaring at others...

The other party we had was specifically a Halloween party so almost everyone dressed up. I was part of a group that dressed up as the characters from the movie Inside Out. I was Anger. Red...it's still on me...But it was a lot of fun just to hang out in someone else’s apartment for a couple hours again with everyone while in costumes this time. It wasn’t long before many people left to go out so I joined but we only ended up staying out for about an hour. We went to an Irish bar called JJ’s and played pool. After that we came back and hung out on the roof of the building but I went to bed a little bit after.

Wait for it...wait for it....
yup, there I am. Far left.

This week at school I’ve already been pretty busy preparing for all the homework, examples, and projects I will give my kids. Tomorrow I will have 3 classes giving monologues and Thursday I will have two classes of students giving speeches and 1 class giving monologues. Lots of performances to grade in two days without even looking at the other stuff I will be collecting. I am pretty proud of myself, though, because I was able to memorize and perform my own monologue for the kids before they did and I also graded three different assignments in each of four classes. Next week we’ll start new things and I’m happy but also hesitant about some of them so we’ll see what happens. ALSO, I just remembered, I basically have one month to get all the planning and preparations done for the London trip. No stress there. But that’s all I really have for now and this post is already longer than I thought it would be. See ya!