This week is just zipping right along. I’m a day behind because Hayley didn’t have school on Monday; staying out later for Halloween also made that day feel like a Saturday. Even though it’s Wednesday today I keep thinking it’s only Tuesday.
I’m just glad I remembered where we actually are in the week because for one thing I’d hate to miss Criminal Minds tonight (coming on in five minutes!) and even worse would be to forget to reset my alarm clock. I have Breakfast Club again tomorrow morning and that means getting up at 5:30 (or at least intending to do so, with a quick slap of the snooze button for good measure) instead of 6:30. It would be a little embarrassing to completely miss doing my volunteer work just because I don’t know what day it is.
I also have a meeting at the school after lunch tomorrow. There’s a health and wellness committee (called Ecole en Sante here in jolly old Quebec) and the principal would like to include parents from the PPO and the Governing Board. Since I do both I figure that’s good enough reason for me to participate. It’s basically a committee that works to find ways to increase the general good health among students. It’s not just for physical health, though that is covered as well via proper nutrition and fitness. However, there’s also a strong focus on emotional health, including building up self-esteem. I’m very interested in learning what we’ll be doing.
Other than being confused and being a day off in my week, it’s definitely nice to know that we’re almost back at the weekend again. I still stand by my long-held belief that society would be much more productive – and far happier – if we could all have four day weeks and three day weekends at all times.
How’s your week going? Fast or slow?
Including emotional health in the health and wellness equation is a great initiative!
While I have you captive for NaBloPoMo- how do you find the nutritional status of the food your school cafeteria offers? The breakfasts you mention sound ok… I ask because I have been reading the excellent rant from The Expatriate’s Kitchen, which paints a very poor picture of your southern neighbours’ offerings.
Building self esteem is good, but it should also include preventing it from being broken down, and then I mean tackling issues like bullying, name calling, discrimination, etc…
I can’t quite describe this week thus far. We had Monday off too, it being a religious holiday, followed by two consecutive workdays lasting very close to 10 hours.
I wish I could go home faster, hopefully today will be one of those days…
We actually don’t have a hot food cafeteria, but we do use a caterer. The food is mostly pretty good because we do have a policy against junk food. I’ll have to do a post on that!
Thanks! I’d be fascinated to read more- here in Australia we don’t have a school lunch system like that but get lots of exposure through tv shows etc, so I am always very interested in it from a food standpoint.