i'm feeling pretty tired at the moment, so maybe this won't be a long entry.
some interesting news... during our breaks, i have been wandering with the kids out into the upper field of the campus. one day, while walking close to the fence that borders one side of the campus (separating it from the wilderness and a drop off to a stream), a wild pig approached us. it was funny, because one of the students had been making pig noises, and he likely attracted this pig...
and then today, we walked to the very far end of the upper field. it is so far away that i had never actually gone there. it is a rather secluded area, surrounded on one side by that fence (beyond which lies the stream) and on the opposite side by the back sides of a few nearby houses. anyway, the kids had noticed a shed of some sort, and wanted to go check it out. "maybe there are pigs there," they said. so i walked with them over to the end. we found a plaque embedded in the ground, resembling a grave stone. it said "this garden is dedicated to the memory of jeffery sunshine wong, wahiawa elementary school, special education." and beyond it, was a fenced off region, with a locked gate...
this was really intriguing. who was jeffery wong? and what was this garden? did it belong to our school? when could we use that space to grow stuff?
anyway, eventually through facebook friends of friends, i learned that jeffery had been a student at my school, in the special education department. he had died of some heart problems, and the family had dedicated that area as a garden to the school. my principal is checking out if that area is indeed part of the property of the school. if so, then it may be just the space for us to start our school community garden!
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as i mentioned, i am very tired.
i haven't written more in the story, although i did write a rambling thing which i term "kappa notes." i don't know if it will help me with the actual trides. but we'll see soon.
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