Vivid Dreams
I had all kinds of dreams last night - I feel like I've been dreaming for hours. I will just write one of them down here....
The kids in Jamie's grade 7 class were given an assignment by their teachers to create a model of a nuclear power plant. I only found out about this when I stopped in to see the teacher and find out how Jamie was doing in school. When I asked to see Jamie's model, the teacher pulled out a hangman made of pipecleaners (the kind of stick figure that you see when playing the game hangman). I asked why he hadn't created a nucear power plant model and the male teacher (it was a husband and wife team teaching him) said that Jamie hadn't shown any interest in science so they had let him drop it and allowed him to do whatever he wanted for science block. The teacher, by the way, had white bandages on his hands, feet, ears, head, etc. Apparently he had been on some kind of outdoor adventure trip and gotten frostbite.
All the other students in the classroom were sitting with the teacher and I as he was telling me this, so I asked if we could have some privacy. The female teacher took me to another part of the school to talk, where I went totally ballistic. I remember grabbing each of her cheeks and shaking her hard. She had braces on and I could feel them through my fingers as I pressed into her cheeks. I asked how she expected Jamie to do well in grade 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 science if he didn't have grade 7 science. I asked why I hadn't been consulted first. She just shrugged; it was obvious that she didn't give a hoot.
I suspect this dream came about because I'm feeling I haven't been paying enough attention to Jamie's school life lately. He had a garage sale yesterday to raise money for a camping trip they're going on (they're flying into a remote lake for three days) but I had already committed to organizing a fundraising barbeque for Iris' dance group that's going to Amsterdam, so I couldn't help out at the garage sale. Also, I recently found out that June 2nd is Jamie's grade 7 graduation and I'm not able to be there because of another ironclad commitment. Joe will go and represent the family just fine, but I think Jamie is a bit upset with me. We will have to have another graduation celebration (just the family) on another day.
9:30:55 AM 
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