  Today was kind of crazy. Made me really tired. The day started off with four middle school science departments visiting our science fair. This entailed us finding tour guides (our students) to take groups of 10 middles schoolers on a tour of the park, museum, building and science fair. It started out fairly smoothly, but around 11 o’clock things got kind of crazy when it was time for one school to leave and their departure time hadn’t been made clear to the tour guides. Some of those groups didn’t get back to the gym until 11:30 and the middle school teacher wasn’t to happy. I ended up giving a tour with a student because we were short on students to be guides. It was kind of nice because it gave me an opportunity to see the park, museum and other parts of the building for the first time myself. It is really quite a lovely facility. After all the middle schoolers left it was time for a quick lunch and then the awards ceremony.
The ceremony was kind of crazy, as the students in the bleachers didn’t really know how to behave well. It was completed in less than an hour though—I thought this a small feet considering there were almost 100 prizes to give out. And the prizes! How nice they were. Winning students received blankets, stuffed tigers, mugs, and CD cases. Not bad I would say. After the awards it was time to get the gym back to it’s normal condition.
THAT was INSANITY. We hadn’t developed a nice system for students to turn their things in, so it was kind of chaoitic collecting all their papers, backboards, and such. I almost wish I had been able to stay longer on Sunday and had gotten to grade the rest of the backboards so they were not sitting in the room. The room now looks a complete mess. So much to do the rest of the week---and Mr. Mimms is coming! 
