End of the Year!!!

Yikes! I can't believe I've just finished my 3rd year of teaching! It's going eerily fast....well, there is summer school coming up, anyway.

So, Thursday I went to Cedar Point with high school and middle school ENL and high school Spanish Club. I spent about 8 hours of my life that I will never get back on a crowded school bus, but other than that it was pretty fun.

I spent most of the day with a couple of students from the middle school. I went on some rides that I had never gone on before (ex. Demon Drop, during which I screamed the whole time). I also found myself much more prone to headaches from some of the jerky roller coasters which made me feel very old. Sigh.

One new one I went on which was really fun was "MaxAir". Basically it's a big circle of seats on a long pole, which then goes back and forth, higher and higher, while spinning. So at some points, you're looking literally straight down at the ground and at other points, straight up, all while going at 70 mph. I'd never gone on it before because I thought it would terrify me, but it was really quite fun. Though it did occur to me during the ride that it's pretty weird people pay money to strap themselves down and be hurtled a 70 mph through the air! It was also slightly surreal because it was at the end of the day, and I'd taken my contacts out because they were dry and I didn't think I was going to go on any more rides, but then this line was short. I had to take off my glasses because they weren't allowed, so the whole "view of the park" was sort of blurry and weird.

I also got a fun "temporary tattoo" which you can see in the picture below (along with my not-so-fun, but hopefully also temporary sunburn):



Yesterday totally felt like Saturday because I slept in and just did errands and stuff. And now today feels like a repeat. It's very weird. Also it's weird that I have absolutely nothing to grade. Well, look out summer, here I come!