Gratitude..

Yesterday I did a Desert Wonders school pre-visit at Hollanger Elemtary..and it was quite a treat. They were by far, the rowdiest, loudest, most inattentive group of kids I have had to work with yet. Throughout my talk, all the kids were continually talking despite my desperate, polite pleas for silence. Not only did the teacher not do anything to assist me, but the rest of the staff was incredibly rude. On top of all that, when I got there the wicked woman at the front desk told me the wrong room to go to.. I eventually found the right room, and it turns out that I didn't have to go to any room at all- they were all waiting for me in the library.
And on the way home I got stuck behind a tractor on AZ-86 =/

Then..today, the same group of kids came out to the park to do the Desert Wonders program. Dreadfully, I drug myself outside to greet them and make sure they were all ready to hike. Within ten minutes, though, I realized that it was all worth it. After many of the kids came up to me excited, telling me that this was the first time they had ever been here, and that they wouldn't have even been able to come if we hadn't organized the field trip for them, I realized why I love doing what I'm doings so much.........

And in a quite sappy and sentimental way, I cannot beleive it is my last week here..