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whew what a day

definitely the fastest saturday... ever.
or fastest that i had work.


i came in ready to go despite the coffee smells surrounding me on the bus making me wish i took some with me.  i decided i would make myself tea when i got to work and make myself be satisfied.


i had tasks i needed to do so i was happy about that.  (saturdays are generally slow for me)


so here i am working when surprise the new volunteers, that i wasn't expecting until next week, showed up!
i now need to train them.
and find all their new stuff.
without anyone telling me they were coming.


then my boss left because she didn't feel well and we kept getting calls about the special moon tonight and i think they put a note up at the box office to call me if anyone sort-of possibly related to education comes in to call me on saturdays because i kept getting some crazy calls.


no lunch time for me today.


it all worked out ok.  they are two awesome high schoolers.  (usually high schoolers scare me)  they're so anxious to learn.  i think i need to step up my game.  they had a question about gravity that i found very difficult to answer so i'm going to look up that for next saturday (when i will actually be ready for them) and i think we're going to learn something new each week.
i just came up with that idea.


i really appreciated how honest they were with me and not afraid to ask questions and not afraid to come find me to ask a question while they were thinking about it.


i think we're going to get along great (they're volunteering through the summer).

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