Kontan.

I started this post a little after 8:15 this morning. Since I can not access blogger at school I was posting through photobucket. Anyway, photobucket timed out and there I was without a post. Took an hour too. Ah well, here goes again…

Second day of state testing. (collective ugh from teachers.) I love teaching but this whole testing thing is obnoxious. Anyway, I had to babysit my second period from 7:45 until 10:30. On long test days 9th grade is kept until 10:45 but non-testing upperclassmen stay until 11:30. ARGH! Enough to drive you nuts. Yesterday was great. First period worked well and almost finished. Today…mmmm not so good. I had eleven of my 31 kids. The rest were either taking the Biology I test or didn’t bother to come to school. Can’t really blame them if they didn’t have to test. So me and eleven wonderful individuals spent the morning together. They were supposed to be working on their current event assignment, summarizing and responding. They were not horrible and they didn’t get loud, but since they didn’t have other members of their group present then they couldn’t complete certain aspects. Plan B time…

Tomorrow I administer the US test. JOY! I get to stand from 7:45 until the last tester is done. (It was at this point that I planned to link to a previous post where I discussed high stakes testing and realized that my Archive has nothing for this blog b/c everything is at the other place. So I guess if you want to know what I think of state tests then you can go here and scroll to 3.23.2006 at the bottom. Gotta hate when the blog breaks.) So, I administer tomorrow. Since I’m yawning I guess that means hustle up and get in the bed soon. Gonna be a long day.

So here’s a run-down of yesterday. Babysat first period, went well but the rest of the day was shot b/c of the testing. Project week! Then took my oldest to an audition for Annie. It was her first play audition. She would like a supporting role, but will be happy with making chorus line. They audition in groups. She was called up with four other girls. They sang Tomorrow. Then they had to sing individually. She did pretty well. I could tell she was nervous but I don’t think it came through as much as I expected. Then they read dialogue. She read the part of Molly. I think she would make a great Molly…or any other of the orphan girl parts. Heard today that 100 kids tried out Monday. I really hope Froggy is selected to be a part of the summer production. It will be work, but I think a lot of fun for her too. She will have to eliminate other after school things b/c the rehearsal schedule is pretty demanding. She understands and is hoping for a part.

After her audition it was ball game time. Leg still hurting so I did A LOT of stretching. Started out on second again. Didn’t take long for us to get the three outs and head to bat. I didn’t bat first round, but did second time in. Didn’t have to run to first b/c I was walked. Had to run to second then third and thankfully got to stop. OH THE BURN! Fortunately next hit was a good one and I didn’t have fast sprint in. That round of batting went well, then back out to field. Quickly got the three outs needed and back in to bat. Got to my turn again. Decent hit, made it to first. Thankfully got to stop. ouch ouch ouch. The thigh muscle was burning. Got to second then got hit in the uninjured legs ankle. OUCH!!!! It wasn’t horrible, and it did take my mind of the pain in my thigh. Ran to third, got to stop. Next bat went home, then in the dugout to sit. Soon time to field again. Went on out. It didn’t hurt much to play second. Had to move but it wasn’t that run stretch motion. Back in to bat and time for substitutions. The bat got back around to me so I had to go up. Got to first and took the bases one by one, back in to sit, glad it was over. I couldn’t have gone back on the field, the thigh was burning pretty bad. We kept getting hit after hit. You know where this is going don’t you. My time again. WHAT! Got my bat, went to plate, and waited for the first strike. Then prayed for balls. Something even better happened. Time was up. We were up 14-2 so the ump called the game! I could have given him a big hug. Great game, we played well.

I’m loving this team. Everyone gets along and they encourage each other. There isn’t that jealousy factor or blame factor that you many times find. We are there to have fun. It just works out that we play well together. Next game….tomorrow against our old church. Don’t plan on missing and my leg is much better today. Amazing what stretches can do for you.