June 1: All the Mission Graduates employees get volunteered for the Fun Run to draw marks on the kids’ arms as they run laps. Those that run more than ten laps receive a popsicle. It’s not so bad with the younger grades, but the older grades don’t slow down at all. They either tackle us or force us to chase a little bit after them.
June 2: Despite the locked gate, people keep hopping the gate to get onto the school’s campus. The first time this week was when Janessa’s dad jumped over so when he was late for pickup. The second time, it was a man who was being chased by the police after stealing and crashing a car.
June 3: The man who introduced “Battling Bulter” at the silent film festival got stuck in a tangent of comparing some of the famous silent stars.
“Why do we have to compare Keaton and Chaplin? They’re both wonderful.”
Me, alone in the crowd: Boo!
June 4: After years of monitoring the yard during recess and being hit directly in the face with a soccer ball multiple times, I duck every time a quick moving shadow shoots past me, the ways fish retreat to hidden caves when a bird’s shadow passes overhead.
June 5: The school is one of the registered voting polls, but unlike most of the schools that get set up for voting, we don’t have spare room for the booths to be set up. This forces people to come in and try to make their choices while standing in the middle of a cafeteria swarming with children spilling milk everywhere and twerking.
June 6: The kids have started a new drawing challenge where they select three random markers each and then all draw the same item. I have been gifted pink, blue, and orange drawings of pineapples as well and a red, green, and brown drawing of me surfing in the ocean and yelling for help because of an approaching tsunami.
June 7: A helicopter flying overhead prevented me from walking home when I was done putting away my supplies. There was a shooting across the street that killed one person and sent two to the hospital. The school was put on a lock down. We all sat in the bungalow and hoped that Shanah and the twins were all inside.
June 8: Because I won’t be at work for two months over summer, I have to send in a resignation letter to the front office today and then receive and accept a new job offer tomorrow. No one really understands why I have to do this, but they keep making jokes about me suddenly quitting and how one day I will some crawling back to them.
much love,
hedgie
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