Although this weekend had a rough start, it is turning out to be one of the most relaxing in a long time. I would like to thank the European Street Cafe in Riverside for their hummus and pita which inflicted food poisoning on Friday evening. Since then, things have picked up.
Last night, Dylan and I saw Wes Anderson's new film, The Darjeeling Limited, which I really enjoyed. Check out the link if you are interested. This was followed by frozen pizza, ice cream sandwiches, and playing Super Mario on the Wii. Awesome. This morning, we went on a bike ride from Riverside to downtown. The weather has been gorgeous over the past few days. We sat and watched the train draw-bridge go down. No matter where you live in Jacksonville (except for the beaches) you can hear the trains---especially between the hours of 2am-5am. I am convinced that the conductors lay on the horn during those hours just for shits and giggles. Whenever I see the trains, all I can think of is Z from Wolfson, and now, my two students who also seem to have a fixation with them...always asking me if we are drawing trains for the day's project. I say no, but they draw them regardless---impressive trains, at that.
School on Friday went surprisingly well, considering that Fridays are usually loaded with some of my most challenging students/classes. The only bad thing about this past Friday was when a fifth grader asked for help with his drawing. I sat down and advised him to look at the big shapes in the still-life. He didn't seem to understand, so I turned over his paper to the back side to do a demo. As I was showing him, he told me to stop because my drawing was messing up his paper. "Uhhh, that's so ugly! What are you doing to my paper?!". In the meantime, his friend was calling me a white cracker. It is moments like that that make me want to a) laugh at how ridiculous the situation is and b) kick them out of my class for the remainder of the semester and c) I shouldn't say.
Anyways, enough of that. I am looking forward to sleeping in tomorrow morning, going for another bike ride, getting some work done, etc.
Ciao.
ps-you should really see The Darjeeling Limited.
1 comment:
Well food poisoning definitely sets you up for a good weekend, the only way you can go is up from there, good self restraint with the students as well. Movies, Wii and bike riding…sounds like fun. Enjoy the trains. Keep up your living…your doing fine. Anthony
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