Onto Day 4

Day 4
First of all, the Huskers are NUMBER 6 (or 7 in the coach's poll)!!!! They'd better be this good next year, that's all I have to say on that. (Just saw this today, sure the news has been out most of the week, I'm just behind the times here)
Well today Hillary and I were in the classrooms all day, either observing or being "mentored"aka getting to know the rooms we'll be working in most of the time. From what we've gathered so far, we'll both be floating among the three rooms, but I'll spend a little more time in the 1 year old room, and Hillary will spend more time in 2 year olds and the preschool room. Compared to Baumholder, this center is almost unnervingly quiet. It's so odd only having 24 kids in the whole place, it's going to take some getting used to. The preschool room has a Laney, Leala and Leila...yeah, that's not cool for someone who doesn't remember names well. And two of them have strawberry blonde hair and one of the second two has 2 was of pronouncing it...depends on which parent you talk to. So kinda glad that's not my primary room, I don't think I'll ever get it 100% right! The Blue Room (1 year olds) has a total of five kids enrolled, and they seem like a pretty tame group, which will be a nice change after Baumholder. (I LOVED my preschoolers, don't get me wrong, but it's kinda nice to not have to stress out as much) . We are still getting adjusted to how things work in this particular center vs our previous ones, which is one of the hardest parts of starting a new job.
We didn't get much done on our To Do list today except get the toilet fixed...which we did, and are very thankful for. You never really appreciate indoor plumbing until you don't have it. Tomorrow we have to go get a mail box, sign up for a horse riding trip in Wales (for Hillary's 23 B-day), and other errands that are too trivial to mention. But the library is open till 8:00 tomorrow, so we can run around base and still sit inside for once and have a few hours of internet.
We made goulash of black beans, corn and sausage tonight for dinner (or rather Hillary did), which was very yummy. The goal is to eat as cheaply and healthy as possible this time around, which has been achieved so far.
We still haven't left the base yet, we probably won't till Saturday. We don't really know where the town of Croughton is compared to the base, it's not like Baumholder where you could see it and had to go through it to get to work...the base here only has a 3 mile perimeter, so it's pretty small.
Well, that's about it...sorry it wasn't an exciting post, but today wasn't a super exciting day. Hopefully tomorrow will produce a good story or two.
Toodles!