I love that I am able to have the time to volunteer at The Kid’s school right now. Yesterday we went to the zoo, and I will tell you that it is not an easy job chasing 16 first and second graders around in a big open zoo all day. Not when you have limited stores of spoons, and not when they haven’t been on a field trip all year b/c various circumstances keep canceling them. I will also add that I am not a short woman, and my legs are too damned long for school busses.
It was fun, but at the end of the day I was exhausted, and I came home and put me feet up for the night, and was probably a wee bit grouchy for having that much leg pain. Kid’s teacher thanked me over a dozen times for the help, as did the Kindergarten teacher. I didn’t need the thanks, it was fun, and I love the school and all of the kids.
I spend at least one day a week in the combined first and second grade classroom and have built a rapport w/ these kids. They are great kids, and I enjoy the time w/ them, and will be sad to leave the island, the school, and them (as I know The Kid will, also). I don’t mind putting aside my personal comfort when I can to do things like go to the Honolulu Zoo for a day w/ them.
But it brought tears to my eyes when The Kid said she had some letters for me. I thought they were something she had done in class, until she started to read them to me, and I realized they were from the kids. They all wrote me a thank-you letter for going with them (in fairness, the teacher knows about my health, so she is always more appreciative of the help I give her).
So, I had to share.
I love these kids.
[ETA- WP is sucky and I can apparently embed Photobucket photos, but not slideshows. Link will be added when I get it up at my other place. I do not have time to use twelve million apps b/c all the different blog places can't effin' get along]
Slide show HERE!
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