In the last two weeks of school I have two obligations: to collect, grade some, and finalize grades on three different systems - and monitor students by following the 5000 schedules that are keeping track of all the FUN activities planned for the weeks.
Today they had project work, cinema, and water balloon activities. It was forecasted at a high chance of rain, so someone talked about switching Monday's board game activities with todays water ballon fight. But in the end it was a 5th Grade Spelling Bee.
I had pushed the team to divide up the tasks so we all didn't have to be "on" all day long. It worked out the part was going to the movies and watching Pirates of the Caribbean. It's been probably 5 years since I've been to the theater, and I enjoyed the movie a lot.
The only part I didn't enjoy was the micromanaging of our students. We let them in five at a time to get their preordered popcorn and soda. We sat them down, announced no going to the bathroom. Turkish theaters have an intermission of 15 minutes, and we used that time to release them row by row to go to the snack counter - which worked out terribly because other theaters were getting out - and the line was long anyhow. They all were paranoid about missing the movie, fighting about people changing their seats and jumping line.
I was okay with a free-for-all at the counter.
We all exited in the same orderly fashion as well - Everyone was required to pick up five pieces of trash.
The only thing we didn't do, and no one seemed to worry - was count to make sure we got everyone back on the bus. In fact, the leader of the group wasn't even sure of our number.
So, I'm just going to assume we got everyone back...
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