Second Inservice Day

Back on the road to normality, it seems, we had our second full inservice day today just listening to someone speak.

Don't get me wrong. Our speaker today was Barbara Coloroso, a nationally renowned expert in educational relationships. She had many good things to say. I learned a lot. It's just, why do schools insist on giving inservices that are exactly unlike the way they want us to teach? Could you sit through two three-hour periods of listening to somebody speak? It's hard, I don't care who the speaker is. Hard to sit still for so long in those plastic molded chairs around those little round tables. And for the most part, all she did was lecture. While it was an engaging lecture and she was a dynamic speaker, shouldn't this be the school district's chance to showcase all those great teaching techniques they want us to do? So they show us long lectures. I don't get it. So I may have forgotten bits and pieces. It definitely all starts to blend together.

After the inservice, we borrowed the van and went into town to open up an account at the Wells Fargo bank. Got my moving stipend today. Amy said, "Hurray, now I get to order furniture!"

Morgan got invited to go to the movies with a family from downstairs and their daughter. She saw that Sky High, actually for the second time. They have a little 100-or so seat movie theater here.