Fun fact, in Spanish they use the counting numbers (2, 3, 4) instead of the ordinal numbers (2nd, 3rd, 4th) to say the date, EXCEPT for the first of the month, when they do say “primero.”
Other fun fact, they do not capitalize the names of the months (or days of the week!) in Spanish.
At the beginning of the year we do the “calendario” at the start of each 6th and 7th grade class. I am always VERY aware of the date at the beginning of the year.
I’ve been excited to finally move into October. September was LONG. And frenetic. I also love October. The weather is generally nice (less foggy in the city). We get a day off mid-month (Indigenous People’s Day). My room is decorated for Día de los Muertos, which I spend three weeks teaching. The pumpkin flavored foods are out in abundance. And of course, the grand finale, HALLOWEEN! I love dressing up! I love costumes! I love Halloween!
This week has been… meh, but there have been bring spots! I booked the 11yo’s birthday party for the Sunday before his birthday (I’ll be hosting it without the husband) at a trampoline park down by my work. The whole party (two hours at the place plus food) cost $380. The six kids the 11yo invited can all come, and my friend is letting me borrow her SUV so I can drive all seven kids down there myself in one car. It actually worked out really nicely and I’m SO RELIEVED that its planned.
The husband grabbed copious amounts of pumpkin stuff at TJs and I’ve been reveling in toasted pumpkin brioche topped with pumpkin cream cheese.
My cousin is in town tomorrow and Friday. We’re going to Downtown First Thursdays tomorrow, and spending a couple free hours at the SFMoMA before getting dinner. Friday I’m taking the day, and my cousin and I will meet my parents at the coast for a hike followed by fish tacos. Then we’ll have dinner and drinks with my husband in the city.
Right now I’m stressed getting sub plans written and my classroom ready to be fumigated over the weekend (it may have fleas! NOOOO!) but I know that by tomorrow evening I’ll be having fun.
Also, baseball is over in a week! WOOOT! I’m so ready for baseball to be over.
I’m toying with the idea of posting every other day in October, to get ready for NaBloPoMo in November. Do you think I can do it? I don’t either, but I might as well try. ;D
Brilliant!
I shall appreciate the more frequent posts as you seem to be a bright spot for me.
The birthday party plan sounds ideal (esp since I remembered how expensive costs have become ….and it is getting more so!)
Delighted you get Friday off (despite all the work you have do to ‘take off’, not really a day off).
Your plans for Friday sound lovely!
Thank you for Spanish lesson re calendar. I did not know that!
October is a month of joy to me too. Makes me think of bulbs for flowers … the remarkable thing of bare but holding the promise of spring! Love it, and I also enjoy Halloween and all the decorations!
Wishing you great fun … THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!
You know, after doing all the work for taking the days last month, these sub plans have not been that bad. I’m getting them done really quickly. The hardest part is getting a sub I know and I did that! Woot!
We have 1/2 a day off for indigenous people day but we have off today for Yom Kippur and October 20th for Diwali. It’s nice to have a day off kind of mid week.
I’ve been so moody, I think it’s peri-menopause…
We don’t get any of the Jewish calendar holidays off which sucks because a LOT of students miss class on those days. We only started getting Indigenous People’s Day off during the pandemic. My district is cowardly and they call it “Local Holiday” but my kids’ district in the city calls it Indigenous People’s Day so I call it that too. We don’t get off for Diwali either. It’s cool you guys get off for so many of those important holidays.