Long time, no blog

So I haven’t posted much this week – and this is getting put up later than the date above, sorry – and there’s really no excuse other than I guess there wasn’t too much to say. I was not in a great mood the beginning part of this week. I was still not feeling great emotionally after being sick and then I wasn’t feeling very productive with work things. But today was a bit of a turning point and I’m starting to feel better. After observing at the school this morning, I was walking home for lunch when I got a text from the librarian stating that she was sick and someone else couldn’t come later that evening so there would be no youth group meeting.

This was not at all surprising. The meeting the week before had been cancelled because of the literary fair and the week before that I couldn’t go, so I’m not sure if the meeting even went on. Also, the librarian had been sick the day before (so the library was closed all day). This was fine with me, since I wasn’t really looking forward to sitting in on another awkward meeting. But I had really wanted to work in the library. Both Profe and the librarian had been telling me they would make me copies of the keys to get into it so I could come and go as I wanted to use the computer (which has an updated of Word with a Spanish dictionary, essential when I’m writing anything in Spanish), but of course, they hadn’t yet. But I got the key and proceeded to work at the library on my own.

It was pretty awesome. First, I had the whole library to myself, which was just cool and relaxing. I played music (I had neglected to put anything on my thumb drive but for some reason the computer there had lots of Coldplay, so I went with that over Spanish music) and could take breaks at my leisure, without feeling guilty. Plus, there weren’t a million kids staring and me and watching every single letter I typed…which definitely gets annoying after about three seconds. So I worked for a few hours in the library alone, finishing my work plan, almost finishing my feedback to the second grade teachers, and writing my survey for families of kids with disabilities. It was very productive and I worked on a few of my own things too, just because it was nice to have a big computer to type at.

When I went home, timing everything so I got back just before dark and in time for dinner, I felt really productive and accomplished…even if just in writing. It was what my mood needed though. Tonight, I feel as though I deserve to relax just the tiniest bit. Hopefully I’ll get to show everything to my counterparts early next week and then we can actually start moving on some of the things. We’ll see!