Monday was such a day for me and the Community Center, and I cannot describe the joy it brings to your life and the tears that well up when you have a mop that looks like this:
instead of like this:
We finished waging war on the kitchen at the Church/School and started to pack up to head over to the Community Center to prove to chaos just who's boss after all. I took a much needed Bleach break and went out to the gym and watched some of the students play a combination of House, Basketball, and Pro Wrestling (which apparently works well if you have the imagination of Kindergartners) and asked one student what his Pro Wrestling name was. He promptly replied with a string of four letters, and when I asked him what they stood for, he just shrugged.
"What's Ms. Nicole's wrestling name?" one of the other teachers asked him.
Again without hesitation he replied, "The Mysterious, Mysterious Girl."
And so this week of adventure began.
I can see how he'd think I was mysterious. Since the middle school meets in a different building, I hardly see the younger kids except on field trips and when I substitute. That must seem pretty mysterious to a five year old, that sometimes I show up and sometimes I don't.
Cleaning Day was generally unexciting. Breaking the Law of Entropy isn't quite as exciting as you'd think. But it does feel good when you have made quite a difference in a cluttered space. It's fun to work together on a project. And finally, it's refreshing to work on something with clear results and improvements every now and then.
Stay tuned for upcoming installments! Will Nicole ever not smell like bleach? Will the Community Center remain clean over Easter? Tune in next time, same blog time, same blog place.
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