port day

June 28, 2013: Katakolon
It was my port day today. A very long day. I started at 8, none of the kids showed up until close to 10. It went a lot quicker once the kids got there. We all took turns on MarioKart, some played Lego Star Wars, and I also had a movie going (since that’s what I’d been doing until someone got there). I’m very glad they all wanted pizza for lunch, because no one came up to help take them to lunch. It was an interesting group to have lunch with. One kid signed in halfway through us eating, and he’d already eaten so he was bored, then one kid ate really slowly so we all had to wait on him, then another girl talked almost the whole time. Finally we went back upstairs and went back to our activities. A few others signed in not long after, so I set up Just Dance instead of the movie, and they all had something to do. One of the teens came by because he was bored, so I talked and played some games on the xbox with him.

I’m very glad all the parents came by at 4, they had trouble yesterday and ended up having a few kids not picked up until nearly 5. However, I had a hard time figuring out how to lock the door. My keys only work for the teen room, apparently they’re all different locks; this morning, I came in through the teen room and just opened the tween room from the inside (they’re connected). But this afternoon, I could not get the door for the tweens room to lock from the inside. After about 15 minutes of trying to get it to work, it finally worked for no apparent reason. I was just glad it did because I was exhausted. I took a nap until dinner, but I kept getting calls (I had the YPC phone because of port day) about the kids in the kitchen thing and I couldn’t get a hold of Ryan to give the phone back and explain what was going on until dinnertime! So, no sleep really during my ‘nap.’
Dinner wasn’t that great, at least they had some type of chicken instead of lamb, pork, and fish; but it wasn’t very good chicken. I decided I needed sugar to help me get through the rest of the night, so I got ice cream as well which helped me feel somewhat better.

The night session was pretty easy. We played “Scene It” until they got bored/frustrated with it, then hung out and watched Brave. I felt kind of bad because I wasn’t being particularly social with them this evening, it’d been a long day I think for everyone so only a few of them stayed anyway.