And I mean flushed in the non-bathroom sort of way Weighing my pockets with stones of longing |
Slept till noon. Caro invited me on a walk, but I declined. Exercised/stretched and met Jessica to discuss our Thanksgiving menu, bought bus tickets and hopped on the net for a bit. Made great swedish pancakes for dinner and then discovered that my powdered sugar was in fact just fine granulated sugar. Disappointing. I don't think I ever wrote about it, but there's this tiny girl in one of my classes who sits at a desk by herself at the front of the room, and she's so quiet I'm not even sure she really talks even if she manages to move her mouth a little when we do pronunciation. One day when I was starting class she was being slow getting out her materials, and I noticed it was because she was very gingerly keeping a ladybug cradled in one fist. I went over to her desk and asked what was going on; she seemed reluctant to betray her little stow-away. But I held out my hand and she let the ladybug crawl onto it; I told the class I'd be back in a minute and ran down the hall to let it go outside. I think Madame Bauza thought I was a bit daft for leaving the class alone just to escort a ladybug out of the building, but I think it established a kind of understanding between me and the tiny quiet girl --her name is Fiona. Well, the other day she tapped on the window to wave to me while I was in the teachers' lounge. I was totally psyched. Also that day in the teachers' lounge I heard that Will and Monsieur Feixa had a conversation about me.
Makes me kind of nervous at 6:36 p.m. |