These kids are smart and fun, but they're wild. My particular group all seem to be writing about dogs or mythical creatures. Today we generated some good leads and got a nice start on the articles. One of them, while describing a playground scene, wrote the phrase "wandering thru a sea of balls." when she read it outloud to me she stopped to ask if it sounded "you know, weird... You know like, not a good thing to write, you know like... Weird.". I knew what she, a third grader, meant. And well, you know you do too. We fixed it to be less weird, but man they grow up so fast.
Afterwards I met up with Randall and Julie. We were going to try this Vietnamese popup restaurant, but they were out of food already (despite being advertised as until 10). We ended up heading to heung yuen instead. It was pretty good but the kitchen was closing so we hustled. Gene joined us and helped us finish up. Happy new year style indeed.
Ps. Gene was not wearing a gold star. I just call him gold standard, so adorned him with one.
Pps. Ungrateful children is anneh's term. She used to help and every kid she was paired with was. Mine are usually just weird. Like the one that talks thru her teeth and is writing about cryptozoology and who might as well be named Luna lovegood.
