Organization

So, I need to open up the Capitol Sedan emails back to me and confirm the schools are correct.  Today, I am starving, tired and want to be on my way back to the hotel, but the driver went to the wrong school.  They said I wrote tomorrow's school in my email, but I can't even find the sent email to confirm that I wrote the wrong thing.  So from now on, I will open the confirmation and verify the school....duh!

Columbus OH in February

Columbus continued
So the water at the airport is nasty.  Water fountain, yuck.  Now I know why the waiter asked me if I wanted bottled or tap.  I've never been asked that before in an airport restaurant.  Ewwww.Go for bottle next time

COLUMBUS, OH
So I realized this was where I found the German village with Schiller Park and went to a lovely dinner at Lindy's restaurant at 169 E. Beck St.  I definitely need to do this again.  What a great experience to see this cool spot.
So I stayed at the Holiday Inn this time as the Hampton Inn in Lancaster about 30 min away, was a bit noisy and not as pretty of a place as Logan.  I think  I stayed in Lancaster the last visit.  I just went to a local Mexican restaurant across from the HI.  So HI had all kinds of hunters there and they were really noisy at 5:30.  I had to wait at the HI check in for about 10 min while the girl was MIA.  She showed up talking to someone trying to make a reserve and took forever to get my room with no smiles or apologies.  The 2 girls who work during the day made up for her.  I don't have much choice so I think I'll stay at the HI on Grey street in Logan again.  Logan is really a pretty town with hills and lots of land.  I went to Hocking Hills Elem and it was a beautiful drive in the middle of nowhere.  Central Elem was right down town.  The teachers I saw had great attitudes so I'm looking forward to coming back 3 more times.  I think I'll try to fly in fairly early so I can revisit Lindy's and Germantown.

No phone service up on the mountain.   Came back but didn't go to Lindy's.  Coming back in April, so will make this happen.

Laughter

What would we do without it!  Lots of funny stories in Greensboro.  Missed Carla eating with us.  Needed to hear her funniness!

Girls. This was a blog I totally forgot about. You can see I flaked out after 2 postings. We can do better. If this is what you have in mind I will work on creating a group blog. What should we call it?

Sunday was a great day to see Annapolis for the first time.  I had no idea it was so quaint and there is the Naval Academy, right on the water.  I wonder if the students find time to enjoy this tranquil setting.
I now know why there are so many smokers in Baltimore.  It seems that tobacco was one of the first crops that the settlers planted here in Annapolis.  I vote that it's time to raise another crop.  It was a long w/end without obligations,  and nice to not be working back to back. I'll be going to Oxford for a day of training on Friday so I have a sub flying in from Worcester.  I'm looking forward to a fruitful week of seeing kids "tap it out" and "scooping" their sentences.  On to Step 2!

So here I am in Baltimore.  Linthicum to be exact.  Near the airport.  Not the greatest place to spend the month of July.  But the good news is I have a car.  Baltimore as well as Washington is very accessible on the week-ends.  I have not attempted to drive into Washington during the week.  Last Sunday however was an hour trip instead of the 3 hour trip on public transit on Saturday.  Once I got into Washington, the train was very easy, but getting there on a bus from the airport was really long.  On the way back, I attempted to board the last bus from the train station to the bus to the airport (red line) only to find out I needed exact change.  There were several of us trying to beg change from the taxi drivers.  I went back into the train station and tried to get change from a young man and his girlfriend.  He plopped 2 Susan B. Anthonys into my pleading hand as I only needed $2 to make my $6 bus ride.  As it turns out, he was from Marietta, GA!  Go figure.  Meeting a generous Georgian in my time of need at 10:00 pm was providential.  I will always be grateful.  I am here training young teachers finishing their Masters degree from Leslie University.  They will graduate with a Regular Ed degree as well as Special Ed.  They are who I want to blog about as well as the 39 young people we are working with this summer.  These teachers have amazing attitudes and are doing their other coursework along with this certification.  They will meet with their students 20 times each and teach them about the structure of the english language.  The hope is that they will be able to continue with these students in the fall.  These children are all struggling readers.  On the first day, when students whose parents had signed them up to come, didn't show up, the principal, Mr. E. went to their houses and got them out of bed!  Go Mr. E.  He is an amazing principal who is not afraid to talk about dyslexia with parents and get these kids the programs they need to learn...