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We are back at it again. I missed you all but so glad we are back. Today was the wonderful day of June 30th and we are teaching at the White Pine County Library in Ely, Nevada. A super fun fact about this town is that we were featured in their weekly newspaper so I guess all the people of Ely have seen our faces. I will include a picture of that newspaper article down below.
We started the day in the morning sleeping in the motel which was a nice way to get some rest in, except for Adam who woke up bright and early due to his unfortunate circadian cycle so he actually helped himself to Denny’s.
The rest of us woke up and went to this pizza buffet in Ely that was pretty good (unlimited pizza and breadsticks and salad) and then we all met up at the Library to set up for our teaching sites.
Teaching was wonderful- Fenet and I started the day with teaching about the brain and ice cream and oobleck. Then Adam and Puja taught their respective lessons on Tragedy of the Commons and first-aid wound training. Lastly, we ended with a bang with Nancy and Matthew’s YGA kits with the electric cars.
Teaching is a whole lot of fun, but also lots of energy to interact with the kids and keep smiling. So we all walked downtown to an old-fashioned soda/ice cream store called Economy Drug where we made friends with the waitress and ate delicious ice-cream sodas, milkshakes, and sundaes. Then, we walked right back to our motel and took a lovely little nap before heading for a group dinner at one of the only other restaurants in Ely that wasn’t closed or only open for take-out called RACKS. We probably would have had to eat our frozen pasta meals because we already killed our budget for the day on food but it was my mom’s birthday and she kindly offered to get our dinner for us so we ordered burgers and fries and onion rings and enjoyed the lovely dinner- Shoutout to my mom, Happy Birthday Amma I miss you so much.
Then we enjoyed a nice van-cleanout and ended the beautiful day.