Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Carievale Happenings

Seems like I start every blog with the same excuses/apologies about the time between postings.  Oh well, better late than never.  A lot has happened since the last time we talked so hopefully nothing is forgotten.

This week my students are participating in a Curling Clinic which will culminate in a Bonspiel on Thursday.  I have enjoyed the clinics thus far and am thoroughly looking forward to the game this week.  Curling has always been one of those sports/activities that I wanted to try.  Claire and I both are really enjoying curling on Thursday nights. It's a nice night out with Sawyer at home with the sitter.  Unfortunately it has been cancelled on more than one occasion.

We had our Christmas Concert last week and my class performed a skit entitled "This."  The skit had a Seinfeld-esque twist where our scene was the students trying to choose their Concert idea.  So they badly sang and danced and realized they couldn't do anything except a skit.  It had rave reviews and the students had a lot of fun performing it.

Afterwards our principal hosted a Christmas Cheer for the staff.  It was fun to get to know some of them outside of the school.  One of them was our music/choir worker.  He is a semi-writer/semi-pastor from Oxbow but originally from Cape Breton.  I found out that night that he went to Acadia and lived in Wolfville from 1986-1991.  I commented that I have family from around there and I liked the University town.  And for the best part........wait for it.......are you sitting down?..... Aunt Marianne?......he knew Dr. Cherry quite well. For those that have no idea who I am talking about, Dr. Cherry was a Baptist minister from Kentucky who looked and talked like Colonel Sanders.  By being on his own he was routinely around my Aunt and Uncle's dinner table on family meals.  One of my cousins even lived in apartment at Dr. Cherry's house as well.  Needless to say, that five provinces away in a small town of 242, we connected on someone.  What a small world!!

Way back when in November, our volleyball team played in the year-end tournament.  They played extremely well and ended the round robin in first place.  In the championship game they met their match and lost by a score of 25-23, 24-26, and 10-15.  Not too bad, considering one of our most experienced players was missing.  Oh well, we'll get them next year.

Our little family also pre-celebrated Christmas with Sawyer last Saturday.  We figured lugging presents home and then back wouldn't be the most efficient.  Sawyer opened her stocking and presents and enjoyed playing with her new presents.  It was so cute to watch her open her stocking. She would take something out, look at it intently and then place it on the floor in front of her. She seemed to understand what she was supposed to do with it. She was blessed with a doll, stroller, and a Little People play set (oh and a plastic ball, of course right).  We are really looking forward to coming home this weekend.  We have a long 12 hour drive on Friday afternoon (staying overnight in Steinbach, MB) and Saturday to Thunder Bay before our flight to Toronto that night.

My time in the classroom has been going well.  I continue building relationships with the students and feel that they are enjoying this year.  During parent-teacher interviews one parent asked,  "Do you walk on water?"  Apparently their daughter is REALLY enjoying this year.

We wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

I guess our New Year's resolution should be to blog more often eh?