It’s still hot and muggy in Prague, the little bitty bit of rain we had last night didn’t break the fever, thunder and lightning don’t do the trick, it’s like squeezing out a big fart when you need to take a dump, it may provide a slight bit of temporary relief but the problem is still there.
Nonetheless, I had a pretty good day. I was supposed to accompany the kids to school, but Sam and his friend, who stayed over last night, wanted to go by themselves and said they’d look after Isabel. I nixed that idea, but let the two of them run on ahead, and I went with Izzy.
The moon. This Sunday. Don’t Miss It.
Came back home, did a Sudoku puzzle, watched a bit of TV. (was a Mediterranean tsunami the origin of the flood story? Was Noah some stone age dude who rescued his goats and a few chickens on a wooden raft? Maybe.)
Went to a school I work for, where the hardest part of the job by far is getting them to actually pay up, and got a partial payment. So, that was something.
Was almost late to my 4th grade class, which is my last school class until September, in fact, arrived just as the bell was ringing and chased the kids in from the hallway. It’s a class I enjoy, not as crazy and undisciplined as the 1st graders, not nearly as sullen and dull eyed as my 9th graders.
I’m constantly amazed, though, at how people don’t get stuff. I said “How do you say jak se řekné in English?” and none of them got it, despite the fact that I’ve been trying to hammer that into their not-so-impressionable little heads all year, it’s the most important phrase to learn when you’re learning any language, so I repeated “Hooooow dooo you saaaay jak se řekné in English?, and eventually one girl got it after about 4 or 5 increasingly sarcastic, ridiculously overemphasized, repetitions.
Then it was off to my little kids, and it was my last day there, too. In the older group, where the kids range from about 7 to 10, 3 or 4 of the kids are actually starting to speak pretty well, and I got a nice goody bag (some chocolates, a couple of kinds of strange health food crackers, and halva – I love halva but I’m the only one in my family who does, so I don’t get it very often) and a reassurance that the class would continue in the autumn, which I hadn’t expected so that was great news.
Summer has begun in every sense, today or tomorrow is longest day, and Sunday night will see a “Supermoon,” when a full moon coincides with the closest position of Earth to Moon for the year, so it looks, as Donald Trump is so fond of saying, huuuuge.
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