Choo Choo Cha Boogie!

This morning marked my first official day at the Troy-Johnson Intergenerational Korner. Ms. Jackie greeted me warmly as I came through the door and almost immediately gave me my first assignment: taking her new phone around the entire daycare and getting the staff members to give them their phone numbers. I can't see that this was the most important or challenging task I've yet to encounter but I think I did a good job. The four-year-old class and the adults were going on a train ride as their kind of end-of-the-year celebration, and I was going to accompany them on their trip. Despite the gloomy rain outside, everything was going pretty smoothly until....the tantrum! One of the boys was misbehaving on the bus, so unfortunately he was escorted off and not allowed to come on the trip with us. Needless to say, he was not happy about it. He kicked and screamed and looked like he was physically melting in the rain. Anyway, the group had to go on without him. The kids really enjoyed the Amtrak train ride and safely made it back to the daycare center only to find their left behind friend still crying and misbehaving. To make it even worse, the kids brought back Burger King for lunch which only intesified his anger, frustration, and sadness when he saw that the other kids had toys and french fries while he had the boring school lunch (even though it looked quite appetizing!). I felt kind of bad for the kid but he definitely had it coming to him with all of his misbehaving throughout the day. After lunch, I spent the remainder of the day in Mrs. Jackie's office chatting with her about the kids, writing an article for the paper, and meeting one of her brothers (who by the way is a very cool guy). Hopefully, we'll be able to have their family over for one of our Weekly DInners with cool people from Marion (lol). They should be a very interesting group of people to have over.

John Luttrell and I headed to the gym after work today, and then we came home to have some delicious tacos for dinner. Alice, the Davids, and I took a nice walk after dinner to burn off some of that taco meat (lol again). Then we spent the rest of the evening discussing the house's fiscal policy regarding communal meals and other miscellaneous topics. Overall, today has been a pretty good day with a lot of memorable experiences. Hopefully, tomorrow will be just as great! :)