Short time thoughts

As the clock/calendar closes in on the end, every day is a milestone. Even if nothing happens, it is one less in front of me. Today was no exception. For the most part, the lesson went well, and I really heaped on the praise, letting the kids know that at the end of the year they can do this stuff without even thinking about it, and build upon it in a single class, where at the beginning they wouldn't have even tried. Wednesday we build another brick upon the first two.

Tomorrow is a little off-site trip for the class. Looks like 100 or so, out of maybe 108, have paid their money and handed in permission slips. All four teachers as chapperones, plus one grandmother who pops in a lot, helped proctor the TCAP and is generally a favorite of the kids. The kicker is this...of everybody going on the trip, I am the only caucasian. Yay, diversity. I am going to keep a low profile and basically do nothing. The trip is to Funquest, so skating and bowling.

End of the week will be a breeze. I put a hold on a video of MC Escher at the public library, and that will take up an hour for each class on Thursday (the first of two days where we cover for a missing teammate, so 80 minute periods), followed by some explanations of tessellations, both basic and complex, reflective and rotational, then an in-class project for the rest of that day and Friday. If they don't do it - meh. Right now, according to my calculations there are only a couple or four kids in real danger of not passing Math, and missing a project won't really affect their chances.

Still waiting on final word on flight arrangements - already submitted my information - so I don't know if I will be driving to Nashville, or lucky (?) enough to fly from here, but make an additional connection. Nashville --> Los Angles --> Sydney --> Perth, or Memphis --> Dallas --> Los Angeles --> Sydney --> Perth. Oddly enough, the Memphis flight gets in earlier, but it also leaves earlier. The Nashville flight would be a nighter...leaving at 7pm. Once I know more I can make sure I am on the frequent flyer program (might have to reinstate it from my previous traveling life). Less than a month by the calendar now.