My life has become a waiting game. I never know what is going to happen from one minute to the next, so I sit and wait and check my e-mail obsessively to find out what the game plan is.
Last night I had been sitting around lesson planning when the e-mail came in saying that school was going to be closed for the third day in a row. I cast aside the grade book that had captivated my attention for so long and kicked back to relax for the night.....that is until 9:00 p.m. rolled around and I received a phone call saying that the administration changed their minds and they were going to be reopening school the next day after all.
We ended up having a half day of school, making it hard to accomplish a whole lot during the 25 minute class periods. It sounds like we will be having a lot of half days in the weeks to come because although curfew has been lifted during the day, we are still confined to our houses under curfew between 4:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. so we cannot have a full day of school or the bus drivers won't make it home in time for curfew (one bus driver had to go so far as to sleep in his parked bus at school overnight because he didn't make it home before curfew started).
It was suggested that we would most likely not have school tomorrow, but there has been no official word on the situation yet, so we plan and we wait. At any second of any day, school can be cancelled, full-time curfew can be reinstated, and life can continue with this craziness......but as for now we aren't focusing on the future because there are too many uncertainties, so we live in the moment, taking it as it comes.
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