He is loving his job and working at the airport suits him. The hours are not always the best considering some shifts start at 5am and others end at 12am but the faster pace is great. He often gets compliments from his customers on his service. Woooooo.
Back in the classroom, things are going decent. My feeling of things being under control quickly
disappeared as behavior regressed to beginning of the year bad and several students got sick. But I made some major changes with the seating arrangements and gave everyone more space to work which helped. My highlight lately was wrapping up our recent unit on drawing by looking at Georgia O'Keefe paintings, drawing our own flowers, and then painting wet-on-wet watercolor (getting the paper wet first, then painting). Several have really gotten into the idea of drawing what you see, not what you think something looks like. It was great to watch their faces as they saw the watercolors spread across the paper.
And to all you back in the Midwest who had snow days this past week, you will be surprised to know that it was cold here too! So cold, the school called indoor recess in the morning as students came to school. Haha, of course, I didn't think it was that cold and wanted to remind them what doesn't kill them only makes them stronger, but I refrained. Maybe going out in that cold would teach them to not wear shorts and to bring a jacket to school. Probably not.
And finally something about the title of this post - the drive between Phoenix and Las Vegas is beautiful but deserted most of the way with only 3 tiny towns along the road. You are driving along the desert full of nothingness and suddenly are in a National Joshua tree forest. They are pretty sweet to look at and not something I had ever seen before moving to the southwest.
The varying landscape in this state never ceases to amaze me.
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