What a busy three days, but not bad overall. :-) Friday went better at school - well, sort of. The students lost more stars than I would have liked, but it was not a bad day overall. At least, I didn't come out stressed at the end of the day and wanting to gorge myself silly with chocolate. :-) I hope that I am getting through to these students - I would really like to 'want' to go into school each day rather than sighing as I go in.
I took a break on Saturday morning and watched some tv. I happened to be watching an episode of the 'Love Boat' and who should be a guest on it but Donny Osmond. I was so sure I was going to see/hear him sing, but wouldn't you know my luck - it was a part one and today (Sunday) it was the second part. Sheesh. Where is a pvr when you need it! :-)
Dad spent Friday 'tracking down' his collectors - he had to meet up with all of them since it was their first day of collecting and make sure that they were doing the collecting correctly. He was able to find five out of the seven - he wasn't able to connect with the two teachers he had hired - one was sick and he just couldn't find where the other one was doing her collecting. He was able to find both of them on Saturday. They were all doing a good job - he did well in the hiring, that's for sure. There is one collector who is very slow at getting around, but hopefully he will just spend more time doing the collecting and get it all done in time. He has another week to finish the collecting. We had a woman stop by our place on Saturday afternoon who was a census collector - when I told her that Dad was an area supervisor, she asked me if he had spent a lot of time doing his job - I told her that he had spent many hours doing the job. Dad completed our census information on the internet (e-census), but his collectors have been telling him that most people are asking for a paper form to fill out rather than doing via the net. I guess if you live in a town with many retirees, that is to be expected.
I spent the afternoon doing school stuff - right now, there is a ton to do - but, I made quite a dent in it, so that's good. I drove the car to the chapel at around 3:15pm only to find everyone packing up. I asked Dad was what happening and he said it was over. I told him that he had said that it was going until 4pm and he said he said that the Open Day only went to 3pm and that he was going to be done by 4pm (cleaning up, etc. afterwards). Anyway, it appeared that some miscommunication had gone on and I didn't get to see the displays or his presentation so I was quite disappointed. Everyone involved in the day was very pleased with the turnout. They had 96 people come to the Open Day of which at least 70 were non-members. In the chapel, they had three demonstrations: how to index names (converting old records into internet searchable databases), how to order and use microfilms and microfiches, and the free family history resources available at the FHC. In another room, there was a demonstration about the free on-line research training courses people can watch and Dad did his demonstration in a fifth classroom. His demonstration was on the new family search which is a global family datasbase which is now open to the general public. The Bishop even mentioned more than once today how impressed he was with everything that had happened on the Open Day. So, after all of Dad's and Denise's work, it was all worth it! :-)
We had another lovely winter's nap outside today. :-) It was 25C today, although it was a bit windy. But when I checked out the wind on the patio, it was very slight and the sun was shining down - it was a perfect way to spend a couple of hours on a wintry Sunday afternoon. :-)
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