It's only 3pm here, but my day has been so full already and I'm about ready to take a nap! I left to walk to school at 7am, but was only there for a few minutes before realizing that I had forgotten that it was one of the three days that I teach PE and I had forgotten my gym clothes. Thankfully, I had been early, so I was able to walk back home, change, and return before the bell rang. PE went by smoothly and I had the kids doing some relays and told the Czech teacher that I would like to teach the kids dodgeball next class =). Yes, I am bringing that game to this town, because no matter how controversial some softies think it is, it was my personal favorite game in gym class. My second class was with the first graders and the first grade teacher who speaks very little English. I was very nervous for this class because I had heard that the teacher was extremely worried about having English in her class, but somehow it went by very smoothly and I look forward to the next classes. After this class, I decided to use the faculty restroom before the magic show that was taking place in the gym during the next period. I have keys to the room, but the lock is a bit finicky so I guess I wasn't all that surprised to be walked in on just before my pants were back on. Luckily, I covered myself quickly and it was a teacher that I know fairly well and taught PE with this morning, but AH! Somehow delirious enough to find it purely laughable (after barely sleeping last night), I walked my class into the magic show to join the other teachers and students. The clown came out and the kids loved him! He wasn't bad and he had music on, so it was a fairly enjoyable alternative to teaching a math class. At one point I was watching and felt his non-painted eyes look at me for a second and felt a pang of fear. I remembered when I was chosen to go up and pulled a paper chain out of a magician's kleenex when I was little. The clown then walked through the crowd until he was standing right next to me, then suddenly grabbed my hand, made me follow him around to the little stage and, lo and behold, I was his assistant. He put some large, red sunglasses on me after making me bow as the kids cheered, and then tied two red handkerchiefs together at one corner of each and tucked them into my shirt (much to my chagrin and with my quizzical eye and death stare at the ready). After making me do a quick hula dance type deal and having me breath on something, he asked me to pull out the handkerchiefs from my shirt. When I did, there was a black, lacy bra tied in the middle of the kerchiefs. I don't know how he did it, but the children were asking me if that was my black bra and if they could check and see if I was wearing one for the rest of the day! Before I got off the stage, the clown kissed my cheeks just enough to smear his red and white face paint on my ears and cheeks, and tried to get me to kiss him on the cheek. I kissed my hand and gave him a quick slap on the cheek before he let me go, but it has been one of the more interesting mornings in Liberec.
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