Saturday morning started out at "The Farm". We used to do some fall training activities with RAs out there, but our group got too big for the space. So in the spring we do some pre-training activities with staff hired for next fall. My big task was to do an hour's worth of ice breakers so they get to know each other and have some tools to use when they become RAs next fall. I loved every moment of it. Too bad there isn't an opportunity to run events like this full time. Well, I'm sure there are, but I have to wait until Anna has a steady job before I seek these opportunities out. Our RA training theme for next fall is "Come On Down!" (a game show theme) so we are trying to relate all the material to game shows. You can't see my name tag very well in the picture below, but it is based off of The Price is Right name tag. I'm holding some foam dice that I found in a back storage room that I invented a game for. If you want to know about my new game, ask me about Name Dice Survivor.
On the way back for the training, I stopped at another farm that had kids (baby goats). There had to be at least 100 of them. I rolled down the window and called out "goatie goatie goatie" and they all called back to me. Unfortunately, they thought I was calling to them because it was feeding time, which is not the case. The goats belong to an Amish family that also makes money doing shoe repairs. I think I want to own a goat when Anna and I get our own place, which will probably preclude us from any urban environment.
A tell-tale sign that I am growing old: my friends and I had a garage sale. The night before, as we were joking, pricing items, and argue about the format (i.e.: whether or not to organize clothes by size or by type, to charge 25 cents or 50 cents for books, etc.) I realized that this is what my parents did for many years as I was growing up. They had the multi-family garage sale with their friends. I had to laugh about this "I'm getting older moment" and share it with everyone, which turned into a night about "things we remember" (especially when we looked at some of the clothes and CDs that we were selling). I had another moment this evening when I called my mom in between watching a special about Saturday Night Live in the 1990s. For the Variety Shows in high school, we got our material from SNL. Hal and Brooke as the cheerleaders, Kylie as Mary Catherine Galager, daaaaaa bears! Pictured below is a part of the group involved with the garage sale.
Today was our end of the year banquet for housing. Pictured below is "the trifecta" of The Legend, The Giant, and MA. These two guys were my RAs in Dobson and they came over with me to SW this past year (and are currently the only two males on my staff). Now one is graduating and the other is on internship this fall, so the trifecta is dissolving. This was the smile picture, but we held it together long enough to take a "serious" picture which I will add to facebook shortly.
Anna has been studying for finals this entire weekend. Sometimes with a group in our apartment (when I am banished to the side room) or by herself. Last week she had her practical exams. She has one final a day between Monday and Thursday. On Saturday she will leave for Arizona and start her internship a week from Tuesday and will be there until early July.
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