foreman

After attending a party to celebrate the conclusion of another successful eight-week session of soccer, I stopped by my new campus to see how nicely things are unfolding. The construction of my new campus is a huge undertaking and there is no one better than a Montessori student to serve as a construction foreman. I only meant to stay five minutes but I was put to work, fed some pizza, compelled to share with the school's founder/director my brilliant ideas about strategies for transporting the classroom materials, and then asked to move tons of rocks. By hand. And, seriously, I mean tons.

I cannot even begin to tell you how spectacular my new campus is going to be. It sits on 12 mostly undeveloped acres and much of the focus is on the expansive natural playscapes and the nature education program. There are walking trails, wildflower meadows, a dry creek bed, and it's almost as if they were thinking of my perfect world when every minute detail of this campus was planned (and left unplanned). Our weekly assemblies will be enjoyed outdoors under the huge canopy of a Live Oak.

See this mountain of dirt behind me? Not only did I help secure this slide using stumps but I also got to take the inaugural run. best slide ever.

I'll be going back later in the week to do some painting and to check on the progress of my workers.