New random factoid from Intelligent Radio with John Tesh (a random selection on a road trip to Boston): Cereal has some wheat chemical in it that induces sleepiness. Well, I'll be darned. This possibly explains my constant fatigue. I eat a lot of cereal (it's a healthy obsession), and I love naps. Mystery solved, but I'll never give up my cereal!! Cereal + sleep + me = beautiful days.
So Miss E and I leave for only 24 hours, and everything happens at camp in our absence. We had a huge lice outbreak in the senior girls house--- the first in SIG history apparently. I just feel sorry for the girl who had it first and so badly she had to go home. A huge misconception is that you can only get lice if you're dirty. It's not true! Au contraire, lice love clean, dry hair. They can't live or stick to oily, dirty hair particles, so heads up. Just don't tell the little boys that... we don't need to give any incentive to not take showers and not keep up their hygiene (a constant camp-related issue every summer). :P
In addition to this "fun" news, apparently parents kept calling the office and wondering why their daughters were saying that the dorms were unsupervised because I had my day off. As important as that makes me feel, it's just not very accurate. We still have 1 RA and 2 counselors who are very present in the dorms. I had to give a call to S's mom (Southern woman) about all of the issues that somehow accumulated in that 24-hour time span. On top of my already-there exhaustion from packing all day, that added to it.
In non-camp-related news, my entire room is packed up. C, C, and Miss E all helped, and we got it done in a few hours. After camp, I'm not looking forward to staying in there; it's just not "my" room anymore... thankfully C said I could stay with her for a night or two, and I'll probably take her offer.
Miss E and I now have a determination to eventually visit Pakistan. I want to meet her grandma who does the funny hand motions. She's teaching me some Kachchi phrases (since that's what her grandma speaks). My favorite is "[insert item/name here] is coming!!" I don't know how to spell it, but it sounds like "i-ee i-ee." I think we have a little too much fun with that one. hee hee
To segue from one language to the next, Little A dropped his 5th period class so I could tutor him in French!! (Before this point, I resigned myself to believe I wouldn't be doing any tutoring since we hadn't even met). I feel so special! We started our lessons last night, and he's such a willing learner. This is going to be a blast. It's so cute because he keeps getting his Spanish mixed up with his new French AND he already knew what [é] sounds like because of Pokémon. Yesterday, we learned very beginning conversation and numbers. We will be learning about colors and fruit today... I need to make it more interesting beyond what I'm doing now though; poor kid will be exhausted by the time 8:30pm rolls around for his lessons every night.
Mom and I started a new game of email Scrabble; we're at a stop because finding word space is difficult (she beat me last game (which lasted 3 weeks... haha)!). I found out Z (Miss E's boy) loves Scrabulous, so he challenged me on a different email Scrabble game. My big accomplisment? For the first time ever, I used ALL of my letters and got the double bonus points for it. A whopping 78 points! On one word! The word? Mantric (adj. having qualities of a mantra). Does it get much nerdier than this? Probably. :)
- Miss Chelsea :)
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