The past two days have been nice in the weather department. I mean, nice enough to be outside without freezing your face off, so that's Spring in my book. I've been taking the track team out for neighborhood runs when we're not at the actual track so I'm glad the weather is cooperating. Today I tried to take the girls for a 2 mile run. Key word there is definitely tried. Out of the 20 girls that are running long distance, 1 made it the entire 2 miles with me. Yes. ONE. She managed to come from behind in the middle of the first mile, catch up to the front, and keep up until the end. What happened to the other 19 you ask? Well. 3 said they got lost. (We ran in a full circle and then a straight out and back down the street by the high school, so you be judge of that excuse...) 10 stopped at the front of the school and eventually figured out that we were in the back and the other 4 straggled in sporadically with various excuses and two other girls must have missed the entire memo about the course because they ran the same 1.5 loop two times. Good for them for that ambition, unfortunately, they weren't super fast at it. At least they got in a good workout. I was a little irritated at the girls who "didn't know what we were doing" because I felt like that was just an excuse because they didn't feel like working. As far as I'm concerned, if you're not going to work hard at practice, don't bother wasting the time. After all, we only have 30 uniforms available, so we're going to end up having to have a bunch of girls sit out anyways. Just another joy of an urban school district. But, as irritating as it is to see them give up so easily, I will say this. They keep coming back, they keep attempting the workouts, and they all did the core and the punishment workout without much complaining. So at least they have that going for them!
Outside of track, day 2 of MCAS was today. I think my fifth grade friends did fairly well. It seemed like the entire fifth grade was working straight up to the end of the school day bell, so that's got to be a good sign, right? Before we started this morning I played the Rocky speech from the newest Rocky movie. You know, the one where he talks about how "it's not how hard you hit, it's how hard you get hit and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done. How much you can take and keep moving forward...You have to be willing to take the hits..." To the average reader it might not seem like it would have made a difference, but I am convinced it home with the one student who I was really aiming it for. I've never seen him work as hard as he did today. So, even if it only really inspired that one student, that's enough for me. Tomorrow the 4th grade is doing their long write. EEP. But then there's no school Friday, so at leas there's that to look forward too. I might try to get in a 6 mile run on Friday morning if possible, as long as it's not raining. Supposedly it's going to be in the mid-50s, so that would be some ideal running weather.
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And now some theme pictures. This month's theme: The Haunted Mansion. Special focus on forced perspective for buildings. When I figure that out, I'll add the actual mansion to the background of the first picture.
Beware of hitchhiking ghosts - Phineas, Ezra, and Gus.
Haunted Mansion wall-paper design. So cool.
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