Friday Overview

Well the past few days have been weird.  Just trying to get back into the life of schedules, class, sleep and all.   Friday morning, I got to work with the 1st and 2nd grade class in the Acadamy again.  I still am not a huge fan of working with 'kids' but I have to get use to it because I will be doing it for the next 9 months.

Friday afternoon I took a country drive out to the middle of nowhere. I found a place on the side of a dirt road with lots of openness and little traffic. I parked my car and read my book for 2 hours.  I do this because out in the middle of nowhere I have no distractions. I have no internet, no household noises or anything like that, I can't just get up and go do something else if I get board - it's quite nice.  I have to say that having an audio book read the book to me while I follow along makes things so much better. I get a lot more out of the book and it goes quicker too.  With in the 2 hours I was able to almost get half way through the book.  

Then after I found a good stopping point, when my laptop was almost out of battery I went to start the car. The problem was that though the key was able to turn the car didn't do anything.  I tried it several times, no noise, no movement, nothing. So I got out and walked back to the interception of two roads to see what road I was on, and then called Laura. She was out riding, so she called Daniel.  Daniel cam out and while we were looking under the hood, he said, "oh, and you should probably turn your lights off."  Ding ding ding. I had no idea I had my lights on, but apparently they had been on for the past 2 hours and had drained my battery. Neither of us knew the proper and safe way to jump start a car, Daniel knew where to put the jumper cables, but we didn't know what order to put them on or take them off. We were finally able to jumpstart my car with only a few sparks. When we got back home, Daniel looked up on how to safely jumpstart a car so that we don't get sparks on the battery.

Friday night we had Impact (which is similar to The Cabin) and then we, along with many others, went to a fellow classmates house for a surprise birthday party.  And it was a huge surprise for her, when she walked into her living room thinking that her parents wanted to talk to her, but instead found a room full of her friends shouting "surprise."  We were at her house until a little after 12:30 am.