One of Those Days

Thursday, June 07, 2012

                Today was one for the books.  I get up get to school, the normal.  It was a little cold this morning, but I don’t understand those who have on winter hats, pea coats, and gloves. It’s not that cold people.  It ended up warming up with the sun coming out and there being no clouds.  I was in my normal class of boys, they were being themselves.  One boy would probably sleep the whole day if it wasn’t for us making him get up to walk around and take his medications.  We were trying to get him off the couch and to his table to eat.  He is on a diet restriction cause his mother has said if he doesn’t eat certain foods it helps with his seizures.  We have some reinforcement food though to give him to get him up and going.  I was holding the bag in front of him to show him and then he grabs the whole bad crushing all the chips in it.  I’m trying to uncurl his fingers but he has the strongest grip ever.  But since I had positioned myself really close to him to get the chips away once I do, he goes straight for my hair.  What a lovely boy. So then I go and squat close by him really closely since I don’t want him to pull and my jeans rip.  I ripped my blue jeans on Tuesday and today my black jeans ripped.  I now have no more jeans left.   Plus it all happened early in the morning.  I felt bad, but I wasn’t as cheerful around the kids the rest of the day.  To add to it, one of my teachers was gone, and it’s like the kids know so they just go crazy.  We just had so many problems throughout the whole day.  Kids running away, pinching, kicking, just anything they felt like doing.  The rest of the day was just all over.  I constantly worried about the rip in the back of my jeans. 

                So on the way home I had to stop at the junction and do some shopping.  How I wish I was in the states to buy jeans cause everything here is just so expensive, I can’t get over it.  At home you can buy really cheap jeans for about 20 dollars, but they’re really think material.  Here those kinds of jeans are 40 dollars.  I thought I found a pair for 39 dollars but after putting them on I realized how thin they were.  I went through so many stores I was so exhausted and my back hurt from standing the majority of the day and then from walking around the mall.  I finally found a pair at target for a considerable price. 

                I got home around 6pm, which was too late for my liking. I had to go to coles and get some food.  I bought a quarter of a watermelon for 99 cents, which I was happy about.  I mostly stocked up on my vegetables and cheese.  People here are obsessed with avocados so I bought two and am gonna try them out.  I love them in anything when I got out to eat, but I’ve never just bought one and ate it myself. 

                Tomorrow I am doing the bridge climb across the Sydney Harbour Bridge.  I am excited. You climb up the arch of the bridge and see Sydney and basically everything around you.  My climb starts at 4pm and it is about a 4 hour climb.  Ill get to see the city in the light and then see the sunset and then see the vivid lights as well.  I shouldn’t have a problem with the height of the bridge but we’ll see, the stairs you walk up are only one person wide.  Unfortunately no belongings are allowed up.  

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