I did my first class on Fashion with the older students today, and it went really well. The class had two boys and a girl, and I could almost see the boys rolling their eyes at the beginning when I introduced the topic, but the way I approached it and the questions I asked got them engaged and giving thoughtful answers pretty quickly. It was a lively discussion and I think they all enjoyed it and got some good thinking material out of it.
At lunch I took Scully for a longer walk, over to the Italian bakery. I got a slice of pizza and a piece of ricotta cake for lunch. Scully really likes the ricotta cake – I give her a tiny piece of the sweetened ricotta filling.
While we were sitting on the bench and eating, a couple of what I assume were grandparents walked by with a toddler, a girl maybe three years old. Then a few minutes later the toddler came running back past us, followed by the grandparents, desperately yelling at her to stop. The kid blissfully ignored them and ran around the small plaza, deliberately dodging their elderly attempts to catch up and grab her. The kid ran towards the adjacent car parking area, which understandably freaked the grandparents out even more, but she stopped short of entering it. If I was near enough I would have grabbed the kid before she could get into the car park, but I was sitting on the far side of the plaza. Fortunately there was no incident, and after a few minutes the kid gave up and the grandmother grabbed her.
At home today I mostly worked on story planning and writing new strips for Darths & Droids. Oh, I also planned a few new topics for upcoming weeks in my ethics classes. One I’m planning for the older kids is “The End of the World”. That should be fun!
Weather-wise, we’ve had revisions to the forecasts for the next few days. Tomorrow was supposed to be hot, 26°C, and has been revised tonight to a degree higher at 27°C. But then a cold and stormy change is coming in. Saturday will be rainy, and Sunday very rainy. The forecast which had been sitting at 30 mm of rain for Sunday has been revised to 60 mm of rain!
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