“Bambi, Books, and Brats”

Day 4 Tuesday (8/26)

Today began at 6am with me hitting the snooze button on the alarm next to the ancient brass bed in the pink bedroom of the staff house. Why the pink room you might ask? Well, it was chosen more for its location away from the road then color. Despite of this fact, coal trucks are still earth shatteringly loud as they tear down route 404 at all hours not 30 feet from my femininely decorated habitation. It’s good I sleep like a log…

As James, Steve, Jill, and I drove up to the school today we noticed the soccer goal was tipped over. The culprit turned out to be a young fawn, helplessly tangled in the netting of the goal and alone. After cutting away the netting Bambi bounded off into the thick wooded hills. The whole experience provided an enlightened start to our day of lesson planning, and other preparatory activities.

As I had painstakingly carried a package of Johnsonville brats and Sheboygan hard rolls down from Wisconsin (I had to refrigerate them at every stop) the staff celebrated new beginnings by frying out at the house after work. Despite a limited charcoal supply, no matches or lighters in the house, and torrential rainfall, we were successful and enjoyed a familiar meal together. With plenty of stories and jokes to share, the evening past quickly and an unexpected call on my cell phone from a faraway friend was the perfect end to a long and eventful day.