That was a close one!

So today was Monday...obviously. The start of a new week. I started teaching with the new student teachers that are at my school for a couple weeks. It was an interesting experience! They are both really nice and I think they will be good teachers! We had a fun time in the classroom and everyone seemed to be enjoying the classes. I think it was pretty nerveracking for the student teachers because today was the first time they were actually teaching an entire class.

Most of the classes went pretty smoothly. The actual teacher had some feedback that he gave to us about the class and just some other tips on what he thought could have gone better. We played a game in one of the 1st grade classes and the students were pretty loud during the game so it was difficult to conduct it. One point that the homeroom teacher commented on was that there could have just been more structure to the actual game of starting each round and such. I guess when you're in the moment, it's hard to always think of the logical stuff. But when you're observing from the outside, it's so easy to point out the little stuff and make sense of things, haha.

But overall, not a bad day. The biggest worry for me started this morning. I have laundry that I wanted to dry, and since I do not have a dryer, my best option is to hang my clothes outside. They dry the fastest and most effectively outside. I've been drying my clothes inside my house just hanging over the past month because it was always raining outside, but today was looking pretty good. It looked like it had drizzled a little overnight because the ground was wet. And the sky looked decent. I could see the sun peeking through this morning. But there was a light overcast of clouds. Well, I figured that if I left my clothes outside, they would hopefully dry out for the most part. And if it did start to rain, well, that would suck! But if I left my clothes inside, they wouldn't dry as well anyway and would still be wet. So that's why I thought that it would make sense to put them outside for the day while I was at work. If it rained while I was at work, my clothes would get wet but they would be like that anyway if I left them inside.

So today went by, and every class we said that the weather was "Cloudy" when I would ask the students the typical question, "How is the weather today?" Well, it kind of worried me because I thought that at any moment during the day that the sky would just let loose and start pouring...:(

By the end of the day, it was getting very windy and very cloudy, and by 4:20ish it was already dark. Well, the sky really looked bad and it looked like it was going to start storming at any moment! I also started to hear some thunder roaring, but no lightning yet. Well, I rushed home in order to get my clothes inside safely before any more rain could come down. When I stepped outside the school, it was drizzling and I was thinking, "oh no....the damage has been done!"

The whole car ride home I saw big drops splashing on my windshield. As I used the windshield wipers I kept thinking about my clothes out in the rain.

But as I got home and went to get my laundry, they had dried out and weren't affected by the little drops that had started to fall.....phew!!!!!!! Thank goodness!! That was a close one!! I'm glad, otherwise it would have been annoying to have to wait another few days for my clothes to dry out.

All in all, I'm happy and hope that future clothes drying days won't be as troublesome as today!