Why I love my job

So there are those days when all I want to do is hide in the break room and eat chocolate bars, and if a single kid calls my name I have to take three deep breaths before answering her, so that I don't snap. Those days when I'm afraid to walk past my superiors because I'm sure they'll take one look at me and say, "Hark! A bad attitude! YOU'RE FIRED." But then there are those days when at the end of the day I actually find myself reluctant to go home.

Today was def one of those days.

Ms. Leong set the kids down to watch The Magic School Bus (the book series of which I read in its entirety when I was younger), and then she, I, and the other science intern, Erica, set outside to test launch a bottle rocket, you know, just to make sure the launcher was working and all. And we had to test it at all different pressures, of course, just to make sure we knew the absolute best pressure to pump it to when the kids launched theirs. And, hey, why not try a couple different bottles just in case we do this again next year... there could be a better bottle out there!

Each and every launch was a success. Quanto brave siamo!! Not a single one went into the VERY BUSY ROAD a few meters away, nor did a single one get stuck in the giant tree (though a couple bounced off it, just to show how high they went). And, marvelously, we got nicely rained on by each rocket.

Following that was lunch, and following lunch was slip'n'slide, and the kids' bottle rocket launches. Success, success, and more success, not to mention plenty of soaking. Definitely a day worth going to work for.

posted by Holly @ 4:47 PM