If
you’ve never gone to a Cirque du Soleil show you really should go to one. A few
weeks ago my fiancé and I took his mom to see their show called Kurios in San
Francisco. It was incredible as usual. I first went to see one of their shows
almost eight years ago. My fiancé told me he had gotten tickets and I remember
thinking, “Seriously? You’re taking me to the circus?” But wow, Cirque du
Soleil is so much more than a circus. The feats that the performers do are just
amazing.
I went
on a brief trip to Pasadena to visit friends and take a much needed break from
wedding planning/stressing. I stayed with a dear friend and her husband and
their darling four month old daughter. As usual on my travels, I met up with
friends and ate way too much food. It was perfect!
I
subbed two days last week at a school I had never been to before. The first day
I was a floating sub, moving from classroom to classroom to relieve teachers to
work with the principal to write a grant. At least, that’s what was supposed to
happen. I did go to three different classrooms, but I was only alone with
students for about an hour and a half in the first teacher’s classroom. After
meeting with the principal, the teacher came back and told me that I’d stay for
another hour with her before moving to another classroom. But since she was
back, she would teach and she wanted me to re-alphabetize her library… So I did.
Then I went to the next teacher’s class only to find that she was there (no
idea why) as well as a cooking/art teacher who was teaching a lesson. I guess
the idea was that I would help out with the lesson. But there was nothing to do
except pace around the classroom (ME: Do you need any help? STUDENT: No). When
I got to the third teacher’s room, it was a repeat of the situation in the
second teacher’s room. Super lame, but I guess the best way to look at it is
that it was an easy way to earn $92 (the take home pay for a day in that
district).
The next
day I went back to that school and actually got to sub for a teacher who was
out sick. The class was pretty nice and it was another easy day of subbing. It
was a minimum day and when I went to the office to ask if there was anything I needed
to do before signing out, I was informed that I should go ask some of the
teachers if they needed any help before I left. So I wound up having to grade
tests for another teacher, who then kind of took pity on me and talked my ear
off for the last 30 minutes before I was allowed to go home.
For
some reason it’s hard for me to keep sight of the fact that subbing is not
teaching. It is not so gloried babysitting and “helping out”. It is also a
pretty good way to earn a little bit of spending money and have a completely
flexible schedule. But god is it boring.
What
I’m reading: I’m still working on Confederates
in the Attic and The Emperor of All
Maladies. I finished Gone Girl
and I can’t say that I was a fan. A lovely friend sent me a Kindle version of Outlander by Diana Gabaldon. I haven’t
read very much of it yet, but so far it is quite enjoyable. It takes place in
the Scottish Highlands so it’s really fun reading it with a (bad) Scottish
accent in my head.
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