And another good thing (in fact, a great thing!) added later: I received a message from a dear person whom I met through postal networks and this blog. We haven't been in touch in years, so it was a surprise and a delight to hear from her.
10/9: doing
...some different things in Greek today. We looked at the inscription on the boundary stone of the agora ("I am the boundary stone of the agora" it says), and I tried a new way of explaining how the forms of the demonstrative this/these is built (using color).
10/7: a bouquet
...of pop-up flowers and hummingbirds, gifted by a student who had noticed my mini lemon tree pop-up earlier.
10/6: sharing jokes
Since my Greek students brought me a present yesterday, I gave them little cards with silly jokes printed on them today. (They're meant to be lunchbox notes for parents to use, but I like giving them out too.)
10/5: gifts
...from my Greek students. Markers, erasers, and cleaner for the whiteboard. Plus a thank-you card. I think it's the first time in all my years of teaching that a gift came from a class rather than an individual student.
10/4: addressing
...envelopes for a Cuckoo Grey mailing. There are 2 pamphlets I made a bunch of copies of during the summer, but--given other Cuckoo Grey mailings and then the start of school--I haven't sent them out yet. Over the next 2 weeks I plan to.
10/3: apples, apples
...everywhere.
I eat an apple pretty much every day. I've tried other fruits as regular fare, but they don't stick; for whatever reason, apples are a habit.
Yesterday my poem-a-day book had a beautiful poem by John Drinkwater about apples.
I bought apple cider at the grocery store--such a taste of autumn.
Apples were a theme in Rachel Hochhauser's Lady Tremaine, which I finished listening to today and have enjoyed.
I talked to a friend this evening who is planning on making apple crisp for her brunch guests tomorrow.
10/2: keeping
...a cardigan in my school office. I took it to school yesterday because we had a meeting in a room that I knew would be cold. And I thought ahead enough to keep it at school, remembering that I had a long testing session today in a room that is outrageously cold.
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