Squeals of Joy

After breakfast of bread and avocado I went off to a junior achievement program and the local youth groups meeting. The junior achievement program is some basic 'business' skills, to get them prepared for starting their own simple business some day. The youth group is about 80 teenagers who meet every Saturday. Both groups meet at the same place but the junior achievement program is classroom based. I enjoyed watching the J A program. The curriculum is actually very good - and I rarely ever say that about any curriculum. I'd love to get training in how to teach it myself. It is very hands on and interesting. I'm not sure how much the class understood. In the group I observed there were 11th and 12th graders and at the end of the lesson they still didn't know if something was a ''good' or 'service'. That's a lesson that I taught my second graders at Hillcrest.

Returned to my 'community home' and it was raining so we couldn't play outside. Caroline had again cooked the food and eaten so I ate dinner with Bonnie at 4, even though I had only eaten lunch at 3. Caroline announced she was going to bed at 4, and although the other nights I had gone to bed when she announced at 6, I just thought 4 was too early so didn't follow her to the bedroom, and Bonnie stayed with me, so I played with her until 6. She was laughing and laughing at every little thing I did. Her great grandfather came out and scolded her but we kept playing anyway because she gets to little interaction. I never saw anyone interact with her more than giving her instructions.

We played horsy, and hide and seek which brought her to squeals in the dark. I stretch out on the chair like a slide and my skirt was slippery so I became a climbing apparatus as well as a slide, over and over. She started copying my sounds that I made; because we couldn't talk to each other I used sounds and simple words. I gave her lots of hugs and to watch her reaction to it you would have thought it was the best thing on earth. She's so precious. I thought heading to bed at 6 was a respectful thing to do. So we went to bed, she climbed in with her mom and I went to sleep about 7:30.