It helped that the "field trip" was in the gym....
About a month ago, Brian Jensen contacted me about having his mechanical engineering class come to Bonneville and demonstrate their final projects for our students.
I knew him from BYU. He dated Marianne way back in the day and then more recently (but still long ago), he and his wife, Jennifer, were in the same student married ward as Adam and me (and Marianne and Robert).
It's a small, small world.
Anyway, I was kind of mystified about why Brian had contacted me of all people in the Alpine School District, but I thought it seemed like a great project.
Yesterday was the allotted day. Our students were hyped. We also had parents come and help keep the peace because we knew full well how hyped our students would be.
It all went really well. The BYU students were engaging and had some really great projects. I had assigned myself the struggle bus kids and we had a little bit of fighting off and on, but the fact that they stayed engaged for about 90 minutes was pretty incredible and attests to the quality of the presentations. Jennifer came too and I had a good visit with her while I was keeping my eyes on my little group. It was a slightly disjointed conversation because I paused a few times to deal with conflict. It was like two mothers chatting at the park though while toddlers play. The interruptions are part of it and no trouble.
We caught up about our children--their oldest was born about the same time Braeden was when we lived in the same ward together.
She told me their kids had gone to Bonneville for a time and Brian had brought his classes here in the past, usually for fourth grade, but he saw that I was teaching so they decided to do third grade. So that made a lot of sense and I was glad they came because our students loved it!
I think it was really great for our kids to interact with college students. Most of them have little exposure to college and I think it was great for them to experience a little window of what some college students do. We are lucky ducks to work so close to BYU and benefit from our connections and associations there.
My parents stayed with us last night. My mom had some doctor appointments and they wanted to take us to dinner, so I suggested they stay with us. We had a good visit. My parents are ever examples to me of how I want to be. They love and serve each other. They have great faith. Despite my mom's health struggles, she said, "What we really want to know is how are you doing?"
"Yes, we do," my dad agreed.
I took a video of her reporting on her doctor visit because she wanted to tell everyone, but she only wanted to tell it once. In that conversation she was mostly concerned about the rest of us also.
I have good parents and that is all.
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