First of all, I loved being a teacher today. We're three weeks away from the end of school and in my Composition class we started the process of making our chapbooks today. My students will pick out their favorite writings from the semester, write a dedication/table of contents/about the author, choose a title, design a cover and voila- you got a book. So cool. Today after the bell for each period I said, "You guys! I'm so excited for today. We're going to have so much fun!" They all kind of look at me like I'm nuts but like they really want to believe me too. And as we worked and made our "blueprints" multiple kids said, "Miss Wright, this actually is fun."
This afternoon was epic. My friend Taylor and I love adventures and today we attempted a major one. We started off from the Monon Center with the goal of blading/biking to the monument in the center of Indianapolis.
We made a couple, very important, pit-stops on the way down...
got real excited when we saw Indy landmarks...
saw a lot of sweet murals (this is a favorite)...
We were so excited when we could see BIG BUILDINGSSSSSS in the distance.
Then the monon ended. We didn't expect that. So we kept our eye on the monument and kept getting closer block by block. Then realized that it was just another statue and not what we were trying to get to. So we asked for directions from a runner and he said, "You take a left up there, then a right, then Shazam!" So followed his directions and Shazam!
3 minutes after arriving we headed back. Although we struggled to recognize some of our landmarks on the way back to where the monon re-started (past the park, left at the dancing girl, over the triangle thing, straight from the glasses sculpture, left on the street with the big hole) we made it!
Booking it back, we made it 3 hours and 51 minutes after we took off. By our calculations it was a marathon distance (26.8 miles).
We said "hi" to every single person on the way back, laughed and talked, and thought, "Why don't we do fun stuff like this everyday?"
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