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the promised post

so, i've been in baltimore for almost 5 full days :)
steph was in town for the weekend and left saturday morning....we had a lot of fun and it was great to spend time with her again! we even had a chance to go see charm city cakes!! for those of you who don't know, i'm a pretty avid food network watcher. and i love "ace of cakes", which is a show about a cake bakery in baltimore. steph happens to love it too and really wanted to go find it, so we did. when we got there, we saw one of the people who works there outside the restaurant across the street....and debated whether or not we should really get out to take our picture because she might see us....for about a minute and then did it anyway.....and ta da!!

yep. sorry it's small, but we wanted to get the charm city logo in the picture. it's a pretty building.
also, you may not be able to see it, but i'm definitely rocking the red and black to cheer on the dawgs for the florida game. sadly, it did not work.




i started work on monday. if you haven't heard, i'm employed by the jewish community center as an assistant preschool teacher. i'm in a class of 3 yr olds (for those of you thinking, "oh my goodness, what is she doing", you might be right....). not only are they 3, but they are hard to manage 3 yr olds. some of them because they're more than a little spoiled, some of them because they've really got problems. although they are difficult, they're pretty cute. the teachers in the school are nice. it's a really casual environmet. in fact, when i showed up in clothes i would have worn teaching last year, my bosses told me i looked nicer than they did and that couldn't happen! so, jeans it is....i've discovered that i'll be learning some hebrew during my time at the jcc....the kids not only have hebrew once a week, but they sing in hebrew in music, say their blessings for snack and lunch in hebrew, and use random bits of hebrew throughout the day.

today at work, the lead teacher was out, so it was me and a sub. umm....interesting. there were no plans given to either one of us and although i know the kids names and what the basic schedule is, i don't know a whole lot more. the sub has been at the jcc for awhile but still didn't know a lot. so we winged it. and things went pretty well. the kids behaved very well -- only a few got on yellow and none on red! the little boy who usually melts down, kicking and screaming did everything he was supposed to do (including clean up, which we're not really supposed to ask him to do because some specialist says not to....ridiculous). he was a model student. with the kids, it was probably the best day so far (in all my 3 days there). however, the sub in my room, while a nice older man, is a little too....umm....well, i hope you understand without too many descriptive details.
all in all, i like working there. whether i'll stay there long term, we'll see what happens.
ok, so one thing i'm really enjoying about the city, while a little random, is the fall colors!! so pretty and much brighter than in atl. and they fall all over the streets. and the road i drive on to get to the jcc is gorgeous with the trees the way they are right now.

i can't say it still feels like i'm living here for real yet, but working every day makes it a little more real, i guess. i'm glad i listened and followed, though because i'm enjoying being here, and i can't wait to see what will happen!

much love, dear ones.

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