Magic Me

Magic Me was so much fun today! We went to John Scurr, a primary school, and played with some Year 5 students today (they're all nine). They were so much fun! Abid was a riot, when they were practising how to get an elderly person's attention, he went up and stuck his hand in Priti's face and goes, "You alright?" Which really, is like the equivalent of saying, "Sup dawg?" as a way of introduction. When asked to be more polite and speak a bit clearer, he said, "Are... you... all... right?" and sort've agressively, we were all trying not to laugh too much. We also played this game where we were each paired off with a child, and each person had to spend three minutes asking questions. I was put with Sameera, who is adorable by the way, and is essentially a mini me. When I told her I was studying maths, she said that was her favorite subject. And we have the same birthday. And when I asked her what her favorite food was, she said cheeseburger, fries, with (of course!) a chocolate shake. Girl after my own heart, right there. It's sort've unfortunate she can't have her picture taken (her parents didn't give permission for some reason or another), but it would be great to be able to work with her again. Plus I feel like she'd be pretty good with Elsie, who is pretty deaf, blind and very distractable, and has a poor memory, so asking questions is difficult, but I think Sameera could handle it.

Vanessa came over and we made quesadillas again, which was quite the endeavor with two of my flatmates and one of their friends trying to cook at the same time, and my other flatmate using the microwave. Then we were hanging out for a bit to see when we'd be meeting to finish booking stuff for reading week, since Hilary had to run an errand and Kevin had some meeting to go to. Haider ended up coming over and we were hanging out for a while, then finally called the others to see where they were. We couldn't get a hold of Hilary, and Kevin was still busy, so we told him to call when he was done to meet up and go over what we were booking, and then dragged Caitlin over.

Enter into a couple hours of hardcore hostel price and location checking, with lots and lots of background noise. I had to raise my hand to get everyone's attention to ask opinions about things, since just talking wasn't enough. We finally booked the ones for Venice and Geneva, and have a good one lines up for Luzern if a potential lodge that Haider's friend might know of is too expensive/out of the way.