Woke up late today bc I stayed up til 2.30am last night. Came back from the beach late, cooked dinner late, a friend stayed over late, went online 'til late, read 'til late, went to bed late. Unfortunately, our full staff picture was this morning at precisely 8.15am. I ran into school around 8.17, and rounded the corner to the specified picture site to see the entire staff minus me and about three others.
Had a bomb drill, then a series of high school staff and department meetings. After this afternoon, I have a better idea of what I will be doing. The high school history and english departments want to use me as a writing tutor. In the past, the intern had to read, edit, and sign every single essay of every single student in these two areas. It sounds like the current departments want to return to that system, which should keep me busy.
Friday afternoons the American teachers go out to the beach together to swim, drink, and hang out, which I just came back from. When we were out on the beach, a pretty consistent stream of helicopters and military planes flew north on the coast, which is not normal. I guess it's all part of Israel's expanded offensive against Lebanon.
The highlight of my day was definitely at 2.30pm, when the school gave me my very own brand new IBM Thinkpad with this sweet fingerprint scan security feature. Rather than laboriously typing in a username and password to log on, I can just slide my finger against a small laser to unlock the computer. Very sweet.
I'm still having trouble with the whole military time thing. I know it's basic, basic arithmetic, but it still takes me a second to decipher.
I am soooooooo excited to sleep in tomorrow.
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whoaaa you have a blog! oh im excited to read this.
wow this is awesome, yay for blogs. keep up the posts, they are really interesting. also, stay safe!
Jackie!! It sounds like you're having a fabulous time despite the political atmosphere...I'm sure you've learned a lot about how people who live in such dangerous situations cope - We're such wimps over here!! I'll be praying for your continued safety!
-kelsey
I can't wrap my mind around the military thing, just from hearing you talk about it. It's hard to imagine you there in the middle of all of it.
In contrast, it is easy to imagine your Thinkpad and the awesome finger printing technology...
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