BBQ Chicken and Trip Planning

Terrible Tuesday wasn't too bad. My first 6th grade class watched a movie and the second class was cancelled because they were taking graduation pictures. My challengers came next. I had them do some writing before watching part of "Blink" an episode from Doctor Who. They really enjoyed it and my COT said they were saying that it was very interesting. (Yay, English!) The remaining 3 classes today were 5th graders and they did the dice writing activity. The only problem is when they don't understand the directions, the activity is just work and not any fun-once they realize how to do the game part of it, it's a lot of fun. The first class didn't get it, but the last two did (I set aside more time to give instructions). The final class got SO into the game that all 23 students would SCREAM if they didn't get a 6 (they needed to roll a 6 in order to start writing their sentences). It got a bit noisy, but I stopped them and asked them to calm down even if it was very exciting.

After work I came home and started on dinner: Pulled BBQ Chicken sandwiches, mac n' cheese, baked beans and homemade coleslaw! Everything was almost ready when Jacob came over. This week (his 2nd to last week teaching English at his center) he realized that there is a bus near his center that comes right to my place (the subway is only 2 stops away too, but the station is about a 6-8 minute walk). He arrived about 10 minutes earlier than normal. Dinner was delicious! And it's now his new favorite meal I've made. (Chicken Mozzarella is now knocked down to 2nd) After dinner Jacob told me his plans have changed again and he won't be going home for his best friend's wedding in October. That means we will be going to Hong Kong in September for Chuseok and Japan in October! We were looking at tickets and lodging again when he noticed a $50 drop in a flight from earlier in the day. We decided it was too good to pass up and bought the flight to Japan! So we'll be spending 4 days in Kyoto!

What a spread!

Yummy!