A long week

Last week was long. The week before ended on a great note, with my class winning Homecoming activities for the second year! U-rah-rah E-le-ven! Oh Good Lord, doesn't that sound strange? Anyway, it was awfully exciting, even though I paid for all the cheering by losing my voice, mostly, for the whole weekend. And even into Tuesday, if I talked too much during the day it was raspy by about 2:00. Seems like the kids didn't mind...

Monday I had a volleyball game, Tuesday I worked at the high school game, Wednesday I had a field trip (see paragraph below), Thursday I had a conference and a volleyball game, Friday I had practice after school, and then yesterday I had a vb tournament. Today, my Bears have a bye, so I am at loose ends.

My field trip on Wednesday is one that we usually take, but sometimes have to skip. It is for my juniors for Youth Government Day, and involves a trip to the courthouse in Viroqua to watch court proceedings. I really like the field trip -- it's sponsored by the American Legion, our judge is intimidating but fair, the Legion provides lunch (usually Pizza Hut), we go to DQ for treats before going back to school, ...and I think it gives kids a good perspective on what it would be like to have to go to court. Sometimes we don't go, however, if any of the kids are related to anyone actually appearing in court that day. Even though 25% of the junior class has actually appeared before the judge this year, for one thing or another (isn't that a spectacular statistic?), no one we really knew was on the docket, so we went!

And things went smoothly, until it was time for a 20-minute recess. While I didn't specifically tell the kids not to leave, it was sort of implied. However, apparently a few kids went outside. In and of itself, not horrible -- except that when I went to look for two of them (no the best behaved girls on any given day), they were coming back inside, and reeked of smoke and perfume. Grr was I angry! I chewed them out for a bit, but didn't actually find any cigarettes. They had to stay by me the rest of the day, though, and did not get to go into DQ for a treat. It was there that I found out why they didn't have any smokes on them -- they had taken butts out of the ashtray outside the courthouse and smoked those!!!!! EWWWWWW!!!! GROSS!!!!! I was way more disgusted by that than by any actual smoking... So, it was a fantastic field trip. :)

On a brighter note, my 8th grade team (+2 7th graders) took 3rd place yesterday at North Crawford out of 6 teams. Only three games left!