Thursday, April 28, 2005

The nieces take center stage

Weather: rainy and overcast. Rained most of the day. Cool.

More and more, it looks like our nieces are quite the draw. I took them to visit L.'s class today. The students asked them a few questions. All the classes have taken a liking to them.

We brought them along to the middle school we've teaching at. J. came along as well. Both classes went fairly well. We read some dialogue out of their text book, had Q & A with the nieces, played a "clump"-style game where they stood up whenever questions on possessing certain physical characteristics applied to them. We played another guessing game called "cahoots", where L. and the class would pick an item in the room w/o me knowing what it was and I would try to guess it. There's a trick to this, but I won't tell what it is in case we want to play it on you!

Mom was pretty sick and stayed in bed most of the day. Dad was up and around, feeling a bit better.

Three of L.'s former students all stopped by for a visit later this evening to chat and play Chinese checkers. And of course, they took to the nieces, who also enjoyed their company.