My Mess.

Here is a picture of the old scrap space. I am moving stuff to the new room. Things are progressing along nicely. A lot of the leftovers will end up in a garage sale.

I subbed at the Junior High today. I had a new experience called Code Red. When this happens the teachers pull all the students out of the halls and lock them in the rooms until the all clear is called. Luckily, I was on my prep period with no students. So I stood at the door listening for the gun shots while I flipped through the guide book for Code Red. I still don't know what happened for a fact. The rumor was a kid passed out from drug use. Who knows if this is true. The kids are all about drama at this age. The teacher had a bulletin board with reading recommendations featured. I was pleased to see I had read all but one. It was a novel about football. For those of you unaware of the Twilight phenomenon, it is BIG. Every other student is reading that series. I walk down the row of desks and count the number of Twilight copies. Yes, even the boys and Middle school too. I have seen one or two at elementary. Those have been provided by parents.

While the class did busy work, I finished The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. What a beautiful story. I love, love, loved it. Guernsey is a small island in the English Channel. German troops occupied the island for years as a base for their London invasion. Potato peel pie was a treat for the starving residents struggling to survive. The entire book is a series of letters written by various people on the island. Each one reveals a piece of the picture. The residents form the book club to meet secretly and help on another through starvation, death, and Nazi rules. Some of the letters make you cry and some make you laugh. Human nature is examined from all angles. I can only sit back and thank God I have never experienced such pain. The book kept the focus on the best of people. It made me ask would I, could I react the same way in their situation? Only by the grace of God.