Today was a pretty awesome day, although a little bitter-sweet. All semester, I have been spending a couple of hours every Friday at a local preschool. Even when the semester ended and I no longer had to go, I kept it up anyways because I enjoyed it so much. Today was my last day. I go back to school next week and just don't have the time to go anymore. I'll have to go to a school again for a class that I am in, but it won't be preschool this time. There simply aren't enough hours in the week to go to all of my classes and to two different placements in the community. Although it was a really fun day with the kids today, it was sad because I knew that this would be my last day. One of the little girls, E, didn't want me to leave today. I had to promise to come back and visit on my school vacations and days off before she would let me leave. I'll really miss the kids. They were really awesome to spend time with. I said all of my goodbyes, and was told to come and visit any time. It's nice to know that I'll be welcomed back with open arms.
This afternoon, I went to another school. Back before the start of the holiday break, one of the faculty at the college sent out an email looking for someone to help a local private high school with a theater production. I had just done this same show at another theater last spring, so I was already familiar with it when I responded. I went and spent one day with some of the kids before they all went home for Christmas, and had a fun time. Today was my first official day with them though. We actually started working on the show. It was a blast. They are an absolutely awesome group. I'm always nervous in situations like that. I don't like standing up in front of people, and I don't have a whole lot of confidence. Luckily, once I got going, it wasn't so bad. I threw a TON at them today during the rehearsal, and didn't expect them to handle it nearly as well as they did. They REALLY impressed me today. I'm going back on Monday, and cannot wait. I'll have to work on some more things for them for then. We'll probably stick to the same number that we were working on today, but will review and actually get places for everything. It's going to be a lot of fun over the next couple of months working with them all.
When I got home, I had a sudden awful pain in my back. My first thought was that it might be a kidney infection because I has symptoms of a UTI early in the week. They went away though. I decided to "wait and see" though because the movement that I did today could be responsible for the pain. I'll wait to see if other symptoms appear or if the pain subsides within a couple of days. If I get sicker or the pain gets worse, then I'll go see someone about it.
All in all, not a bad day.
Unfortunately, when I talked to my mom last weekend, she gave me some really bad news. My grandfather has lung cancer. Since he also has emphysema and COPD, he's decided not to have it treated. It wouldn't prolong his life that much anyways, even if they got it into remission. I feel like I should be more upset about it than I am, but I've never been close to him. He is an emotionally and verbally abusive a**h***. He isn't even truly my grandfather. He is just my grandmother's third or fourth husband. I was never really close to my grandparents. My great grandparents raised my mother, one aunt, and one uncle. I visited them every Sunday for dinner (nearly) while they were alive. I was extremely close to them. Their deaths were hard for me, although I'm not sure I truly ever grieved for either one. Hearing about my grandfather, I'm sorry that it is happening to him, but don't have any real feelings about it.
All for today I suppose.
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