It’s Friday! The first week of state tests are done. There are still two more weeks left to go.
I’ve seen this on some other blogs and thought I’d jump on the bandwagon too.
So here it is, whether you like it or not, my day in photos!
Wake up! 6:00 AM
Drive to work.
School! I got to take all the butcher paper off the alphabet, so it was an exciting day indeed.
No talking! One of the other teachers had this pig in her classroom. It’s a pig (obviously)that oinks songs. It hasn’t oinked a song all year. When did it decide to? Oh on the one day where if anything out of the ordinary happens it’s on your head as a teacher…
Math inventory. It’s amazing that there was an abacus in my closet and I didn’t even know it. Does anyone know how to use an abacus!?
Lunch
I love my student’s spelling skills. That would be dog, skank, swkank, and school. Of course the word they all wanted to repeat was skank…
Recess…kind of…
Gliding while eating… This is at Rudee’s in Virginia Beach. I had not known about these gliders. It was pretty spectacular.
I tried a new frozen lunch today. I was a little wary since it was a frozen falafel. Nine times outta ten a frozen falafel is a fail. Ooo, I love alliteration.
Howevah, after eating TaDah, my mind has been changed. It was flavorful and delicious.
Oh and they provide good advice and warnings:
How true, how true.
I had a pretty awesome weekend, if I do say so myself. We traveled down to Raleigh to celebrate my brother’s girlfriend’s Masters degree. Woohoo, Sarah!
It started off with some baseball:
The Durham Bulls have a pretty cool ballpark. It was a great night and there were fireworks soooo…
My brother’s gf graduated the next day
Can you find her?
It was a great weekend visiting with family and meeting new family members.
This week is a testing week which = not a lot of fun. Our tests are all online which means I get to walk around a watch them click through answers. Not really, my group has been good about actually trying to answer the questions.
I’m up on all the latest lingo…WTF, Why the face? Oh Phil…
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No, but seriously! I was noticing the other day The Pig that people had pretty serious faces during the race…like the whole time. And then again yesterday I was at an event that celebrates, celebrates! reading and achievement. Then it hit me! These people aren’t mad, they just have:
Finished the Flying Pig Half Marathon in 3:27! If you haven’t checked your results…and why has it taken you this long? Go here!
The Pig was awesome this year. I feel like I say that every year, but it’s true every year.
First off, how can any day be bad when your morning looks like this?
A little blurry, but you get the jist.
Mom and I made our way to corral H, the blog isn’t called thelastcorral for nothing! We found a secret way to get to our corral. Okay maybe not really a secret, but it took us 10 years to figure it out!
Corral H had some beautiful scenery as well.
The Pig officials were playing songs that were either by Boston or had to do with Boston. The one that was stuck in my head all day was The Standells, “Dirty Water.”
Before the race started there was a moment of silence followed by “Amazing Grace” played on the bagpipes. It was pretty touching.
Then before we started we saw not one, but two rainbows!
At 6:30 we were off…well corral’s A-F were off, we waited about 20 minutes to be off. Once we got started it was pretty smooth sailing. The one thing I know I need to work on are hills. We just don’t have that many in Virginia Beach, funny huh? I could definitely feel the hills in my thighs and hips, but that’s really my only complaint.
There was definitely a larger police presence this year, and that was okay. There was a police officer or State Trooper at every intersection and water stop. They were also peppered throughout busy/popular sections of town. I know my mom and I felt safe.
Here’s the numbers:
15.34 – number of miles completed that day, according to my mom’s iPod
1- missed handoff of water leading to one glass of water being spilled down my leg
6 - “Awwws” from other racers upon reading my mom and I’s t-shirts
3 (at least) – times someone said that, “It’s all downhill from here” when it really wasn’t.
15? – water stops. The volunteers (Grunt’s) are always awesome. There wouldn’t be a race without all the volunteers at water stops, at the Expo and at the finish line.
Uncountable – number of creative signs along the course. My favorites, “WTH! Why the Hills?”, “I’m a stranger, but I’m proud of you!”, “I like Pig Butts and I cannot lie.”, “If this were easy, I’d be doing it.”
2- Number of states we walked through
33,582 – number of participants for the entire weekend of events.
10 – number of years mom and I have walked this race. Yup, we’re pretty spectacular.
We ended the day, the best way possible
UDF milkshake! Oh UDF I miss you in Virginia!
Another great Pig! Thanks to the race organizers, volunteers, spectators, and police. We couldn’t have done it without you!
Well it’s really just one. Sorry for false advertising.
But! It’s a very good one.
This kid needs to follow me around all day. A) I just want to pinch his cheeks at every moment. That’s not creepy. B)He’s hilarious. “Thanks a lot Robert Frost!”
The Flying Pig is on Sunday so that means that I am drinking my weight in water, eating a few more carbs (thank you free doughnuts at school), and not really working out.
I did, however, check out my apartment building’s gym. My Runkeeper app did not like the location of the gym. It told me that basically I was Usain Bolt.
Me thinks not. I am pretty sure that it’s physically impossible for me to run 9 miles at a two-minute pace. Tapering that is not.
Caught your attention, didn’t I? As my Auntie Anne would say, “It’s a good day when you learn something!” I concur Auntie Anne!
So what did I learn? I found out that Goodwill will take your computer that you don’t need anymore. In my case a 10 year old desktop that was just collecting dust. They will take your laptop and wipe the hard drive, give it to Dell, have them refurbish it, and then give it to someone who needs it. Pretty cool, right?
Second good thing! I was at my apartment, cleaning it out, trying to be a good former tenant… I got there and was starving. I knew I’d just have to struggle through and deal with my stomach trying to eat itself. Well, while I was throwing away grocery bags I noticed something in one. What do you know, it was a Luna Bar that I thought I’d lost.
Luna Bar for the win!
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I betcha didn’t know that A was for gorilla? Did ya?
When we were going over what picture showed the long a sound (either apple or ape). When we asked one little girl which picture it was she said, “Gorilla?”
