Oh happy day, my student is too tired to come to school today and I'm back home! YAY!
Elmo I hope your landlord has some good news for you. :( It's so sad that you have to just stay in your house...what right do they have to make you feel like this?! Am so
for you!
Here is my day yesterday: (copy and paste from another thread)
"So yesterday someone decided it would be a fabulous idea to haul a bunch of kids with special needs up a mountain. The trail is fairly mild, but it is almost three miles long. What the actual fuck ? Anyway.
I had a group of three girls and they mostly did all right. One had mild CP and so we had to go really slowly in the steep parts. Also, she appears to be one of those people that mosquitoes just love and was getting swarmed, the poor little darling. She doesn't speak very clearly, so every five steps or so she would stop and say "These buggies are HOWWIBLE." And I would say something along the lines of "I know, Sweetie" and she would say "When I get home I will SWAM MY DOE (slam my door) and weeve them OUTSIDE!" And I would acknowledge that this was certainly a good plan and we'd move on.
In another group, one of the kids (who was an older teen and quite large) decided she was not going any further (not that I blame her) and sat down and refused to move. Another aide was with her and had no idea what to do besides yell for help. To add to this, the girl only speaks a handful of words, but two of them are "no" and "shit" , so to be extra helpful she began screaming them at top volume. Finally a hiker passed them and went for help. The teacher sent the two strapping young male aides to give assistance, but even they decided they couldn't carry the girl for a mile or so up a mountain, so they had to sprint the mile and a half back to the station and get a park ranger to come with a four wheeler.
Did I mention it was about 33 degrees your temp?
Anyway, we reach the top which had an observation deck. There were a few hiking families there with their kids, too. A few of our kids were crying hysterically (they don't speak and often cry), one was hollering that he had dry skin on his foot, one was asking the helpers repeatedly if they had any snake antidote, just in case, and if they didn't why hadn't they told him so that he could have made some at home? One kid who also doesn't speak has one of these and was huddled in the corner repeatedly pressing the picture of food so that the machine was saying "I want to eat I want to eat I want to eat" over and over again in a robot voice, one kid was attempting to bite, and everyone else was just generally running around chaotically.
One of the families with children were really nice, the other was giving us their best "why aren't these people in an institution somewhere" look and I must admit I gave them a spectacular stinkeye in return. :o "
I am EXHAUSTED. But on the positive side the mountain was really pretty and I want to hike it with DH and DS as soon as it cools off a bit. Also I wasn't as scrupulous with the sunscreen as I should have been and I got a nice tan. :)