I am sure feeling better than I was on Tuesday night - what a day that was. Dad got sick on Sunday (remember I said I brought him home after Sacrament meeting?) and then on Monday, he got even worse. Well, he is such a nice guy, he passed it on to me. :-) So, I am 24 hours behind him on this cold. Yuck! I thought my head was going to explode on Tuesday. It was so bad, I even started taking some Sudafed to see if it would help. I also went to bed at 8:15pm on Tuesday night and slept through until 6am Wednesday morning and then went to bed early again last night. It's been a rough slog at school and Dad has been picking me up early (at 4pm) each afternoon this week as I was just too tired to stay there any later than that.
Some news about Brayden: his mom told me that they took him to someone 'like a pedicatrician' and that she said that he is too young to diagnose. Sheesh. This 'doctor' watched him play on his own and talked with his mom about his behaviour and then the doctor said he is 'normal' in his behaviour. Gee, has she ever thought about coming into the classroom to see how he interacts with others, listens while the carpet, follows instructions, etc. -- NO! Man, it's so frustrating. So, nothing will be done about his behaviour other than mom (bipolar) and grandma and grandpa trying to work with him. Who knows what actually happens at home, though - I reckon there's a lot of talk and not a lot of walk. Oh, and get this, the 'doctor' says that one reason for Brayden's behaviour is likely that he has a 'new' teacher - I have been his teacher for nine weeks now - I hardly consider that 'new'.
Some good news....for me, anyway. Teachers in HB worked an extra day in January before the children came to school and so have a day off tomorrow. I was told that I might be able to go to another school to do some planning/preparing if I wanted to get paid OR I could take the day off. I didn't want to give up the money and so I chose to go to a different school (all the teachers in HB who did not do that extra day were going to meet at that school). Anyway, Neil (our acting principal) told me today that I could come into our school and work in my classroom. I was so excited about that as I can have time to organize things right there instead of having to drag everything somewhere else. So, I will get paid for doing things I would be doing at home anyway. :-)
Dad has been busy working on census stuff - checking out the collectors' books - it took him hours to go through the first collector's book, but now that he has done that, he said it's been easier to do the second collector's book. He will have five more collector's books to do this week - he has to be completed all of the checking by September 7th, so he has told his collectors that they need to have their books to him no later than Monday night.
On Tuesday night, Dad set up things so that a live webcast could be received in our chapel from Brisbane. It was about the 'I am a Mormon' campaign which will begin in Australia in September. The purpose of the webcast was to let everyone know about the campaign and also to let them know how the campaign went in North America (it was a resounding success there). The campaign will consist of tv ads and video profiles on mormon.org.au and facebook, youtube and twitter.
Tonight at SES, Dad practiced ladder hinges and ladder slides (yeah, I had no clue, either, but then Dad told me what those terms meant :-) Basically, these are two ways to get a patient on a stretcher, either up or down a cliff or from a basement of a house which has collapsed (no stairs to climb up). They used mannequins as the 'patients' and, in their shed, they have a second floor and so they transported the patients up and down between the ground floor and the second floor of the shed without using the stairs. They don't practice this procedure very often because normally the firies would do that, but they do need to learn how to do it and to practice it once in a while.
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