Opening Day

Oh, my aching legs! If I could cut them off below the knee I might. My heels weren't that high and they were nice and wide, but I will wear flats for the next few days until my legs get used to being back at work.

It was a good first day. I really missed and like these kids in the two classes. At noon, most of the school watched a live broadcast of the Pres. Obama's speech to school children. One of my colleages, told the class that in 40 years of teaching, this is the first president to do so. There was some political backlash nationally since last week over it, some of a particular political mind set didn't want their kids "indoctrinated" in his beliefs. The socialist, and worse label has been tagged on him since before he was elected. In a nutshell, what he said was to listen to and respect your parents/caretakers and teachers, and respect yourself enough to stay in school and do they best you can, so that you can help solve the world's problems when you're older. Commie-pinko rhetoric if I've ever heard it. :) You know, the other side needs to stop it's hating, and to stop thinking like Fox Network robots..

All in all a really good day. I have some planning to do for tomorrow but we're still in rules/ropes mode so not a lot. Good thing, mostly all I'm up to is my tv, my sofa and a couple of aspirins. Still, it's great to be back.