Thursday, October 25, 2007
school cancelled due to the fires
the fires have surrounded colton in ontario, fontana, and san bernardino. i know we haven’t been threatened by anything, not like the people living in the cajon pass or up in arrowhead, but we have been living through the rain of ashes and the clouds of smoke. it was particularly bad on monday and tuesday, and all of us were wondering why we had the students walking around campus breathing in the harmful ashes. i get to hide out in my room and i don’t have to walk anywhere all day long, but they have to walk all across campus all the time.
so finally my district gave in and gave them the time off school because of the hazardous conditions. i would have preferred to stay home on monday and tuesday and had classes the rest of the week, but i guess 2 days off is 2 days off. time to recover from having to teach while inhaling ashes and smoke!
so all of a sudden i have a 4 day weekend. i think marlene and i were gonna try to volunteer to help those who have been evacuated…