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A Regular Monday & Challenges

30 Day Blogging Challenge:

April 27, 2020
What do you think you'd be doing today if this pandemic had never happened?
Since I am a person who tends to follow a pattern, I would be teaching in the morning and then heading to Starbucks for lunch and some time to write. Afterward, I might get some groceries and drop them off at home. Then grab a quick dinner before heading out for a 7 pm meditation session, then at 8 pm, head over to Cafe 1842 to meet up with my writing friends for another hour. Somewhere in there I would try to get in some walking, but Monday's are a big writing day.
If it were summer, Monday mornings are for writing in Guelph. There might even be some visiting of family.

Blog City - Day 2112

Prompt:
The same task could be painful to one person and pleasant to another. Which kinds of tasks feel easy and pleasant to you?

When I read this the first thing that came to mind was making phone calls. Some people love to talk on the phone, I am not a fan. But I have been designated the teacher who gets to talk to the parents, while my partner handles the tech end of things. Given the two things, I will learn to deal with the phone calling. This week my teaching partner is on bereavement leave and I am dealing with both aspects of the job. Trying to fix tech issues is not my strong suit and one parent can't access the Boardmaker program. Since the other teacher does this, and I don't want to pester her, I am waiting in limbo. I have told the parent I am looking into finding other answers and assuring them that they can do what they can for the time being. Thankfully, they were okay with that answer.
We are a special education class - the primary Autism class. We usually do not use a great deal of tech in our class. The learning curve has been huge for all of us, including the parents, many of whom are English as a Second Language. One family is also deaf.