Zach and Cierra very kindly agreed to come to school on Friday and be the audience for my students. My lower level ELL kids had prepared a slide show of sorts and recorded an essay they had written describing a space at the school.

It's good for the students to have an opportunity to share their work and they were happy to have Ms. Bestor's son and his girlfriend listen to them talk. A couple of the kids with no filters peppered them with personal questions, like "When are you getting married?" but Zach and Cierra handled them with grace and patience - and a couple of none-of-your-business kind of answers.

I also got to treat them to lunch from the snack bar and give them a tour of the school.

We finished the day with dinner at an Indian restaurant and were quite surprised to find it raining when we finished dinner. I hasn't rained in a month and I hadn't expected it to rain again for another six months. But it felt pretty good and it cleaned out the pollution a bit so we didn't mind. We walked up to the fruit store to restock the larder and came back with persimmon, pineapple, passion fruit, Asian pear, oranges, grapefruit, dragon fruit and wax apples.

Delicious.