Annnnnd it's MONDAY

Whew!

It's Monday again.

That seems to happen at least once a week!

Hahahahahaha

The last time I taught at the Coral Springs site

(the first two weekends in July)

we had a capacity crowd.

Literally people sitting in the chairs around 

the edges of the room.

We had 42 people pre-registered

and ran between 28 and 30 both weekends.

This time I had 36 pre-registered.

Started with 12.

Ended with 7!

I'm not sure which I prefer.

Neither actually.

I like 12 - 18.

But this is a good group.

All women.

Except Larry.

We play a game on a mobile app called

Kahoot.it

They are ABSOLUTELY FORBIDDEN

from using their phones during class.

Like I call them out even if they are just looking

up the definition of a word on Google!

(That's why you have a live instructor... ask me!)

But at the end of every chapter,

they get to pull out their phones / tablets

and we play this game.

They LOVE it.

But if you have an iPhone you have a slight advantage.

Larry.

Our Token Male

has an iPhone.

So he wins.

Every time.

At the beginning of the game

they get to pick a nickname.

And sometimes they are really silly.

Like we had:

I'm Sleepy

Are We Done Yet

Starving

but the best one was

Beat Larry!

Hahahahahahaha

So the next round, one of my younger,

less mature people logged on first 

with the nickname of

Larry's a Nerd

(In her defense, she's an engineer and she swears

Nerd is a term of endearment...)

And here was the response.

They rallied around him.

And he still beat the socks off of them.

Silly bunch.

The game is fun and helps them

remember the material.

Win / Win

In other news...

There isn't any.

LOL

Kyle's actual first "day" is tonight.

Not last night.

He went to 3 hours of "orientation" on Saturday

and learned all about the store and his duties

and "facing" (which means going around and

making sure all the shelves are neat and all product

is lined up and pulled to the front of the shelf...)

He gets his actual schedule tomorrow. (probably)

And then he'll start working on figuring out

if he should sleep in the afternoon / evening before

work at 10 pm or in the morning / afternoon

after he gets off at 6.

And buying black-out curtains.

(He already bought some jeans.  Poor Florida boy.

He HATES long pants...)

(He's never lived in snow before.)

(He'll get used to it / them)

(probably)