school

I can tell I'm enmeshed in the semester again when I can't think of anything to post other than work and school. And no one wants to hear about randomized control trials and capacity development and new social movements theory.

Oh, wait, I don't even want to.

But Juma's school is fun. Yesterday Juma and a friend dug up a "dog bone" treasure, and today a butterfly is working its way out of a chrysallis. This morning we drew coconut and banana trees in pastels, fashioned a map to his school out of pegs, and read about apple picking at a local orchard. And he gets two snack times, lunch, and a nap time. I'm jealous!

He's having a little trouble adjusting to full time, though. He has plenty of fun while at school and never acts out, but he hates nap time (because he doesn't nap), and sometimes just can't stand to wait until 4:30 or 5 for pick up time. Every morning he wants to discuss, "Okay, when are you picking me up today? Before second snack time? Can't you come before nap time? Or how about when we're having second outside-play-time?"

Yesterday I picked him up during second outside-play-time, and he actually jumped up and down for joy and said, Yippee! But then he wanted to stay and play for another half hour. So we did. Playing at his school is way more interesting than playing at our house, where I can't help but start thinking about the laundry, the dishes, the homework hiding in my backpack.