busy little saturday

ya'll: it's hot. not just normal hot either. but the kind that you go to breathe, and you can't actually tell that the air is going into your lungs. but then you realize that fire feeling filling your diaphragm is actually the air. it's the kind of hot where everything just sticks to you: your clothes, the chair, either side of your knee-pit. it's too hot to sit, too hot to stand, too hot to lay in bed, too hot to go to the pool. i'm typing lesson plans as i journal, but even that is making me break a sweat. when its 8:30 in the morning and you're already sweating, you know your in for it. thankfully, edh is gracing us with electric this fine saturday; hopefully it runs through the day, because i don't know what i would do without my fan!

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i want to wear white. and sit in a big floppy hat sipping ice water with lemon from the porch of the franklin mercantile. i don't even really care for their food that much. i just want to people watch. in comfortable weather, of course.

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im really excited about the lesson plans i'm creating for our first full-on thematic unit for the next three weeks. it's going to be a work in progress, likely the whole time i'm doing the lessons. nothing is ever finalized here; its always changing and adapting: electric goes out, half the class doesn't show up, it rains, it's too hot. but for now: its a plan to travel the world and learn a little bit about different areas. very basic: weather, geography, the kids, the language, map, flag and food. hopefully there's enough time in the day for all of this! we are only doing one day of intro, which might need to be stretched to two to cover maps and travel before we actually start talking about far off countries. i hope the kids are primed to know that the world is a big big place!

we're spending monday making passports, plane tickets, and mapping the classroom. each day, we'll get a stamp in our passport for what country we've "been to", and at the end of each day, they will fill out an exit card "postcard" about their favorite thing they learned from that country. for the youngin's, it will be a pre-generated choice they circle; for the kinder's it will be a self-generated response!

i'm excited for the strides and excitement to be made over this! (hopefully!) we plan on going to: Ancient Egypt, Greece, China, US, France, Mexico, and Africa, before winding up in Haiti the day before Haiti Flag Day (a huge holiday here)!

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the people that woke me up at 7:30 on a saturday by cutting 2 x 8's and drilling concrete outside my window just earned a little respect. they are playing jack johnson now. i'll take it.

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fingers crossed. club indigo tomorrow? if not, next weekend for sure. i'm trying to convince for tomorrow, too.

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dreaming of ice water with lemon.