Tuesday, September 10th - The flip side!

I met my grades 7 and 8 today for math. Everything was fine. If they behave like this all year, it will be a breeze. However, today was only the second full day of school, so let's not get excited yet! Jacqui had a good day as well. She even had her little "kid from hell" (there's one on every continent) and he was fine (why is it always a boy???). We had a young couple on our floor in our building (he was teaching gr 3 and she was teaching gr 1) that just decided to leave in the middle of the night, without telling anyone. Done with school. Outta here! It's a little weird but also kind of funny, unless you're the principal or VP. I must admit that I've never seen that before.

What we have shown you in pictures so far has always been about how nice and beautiful this place is. Time to look at the flip side of this. We actually do groceries in a store located in the building shown below. It's a neighbourhood co-op; selection is good and prices are cheaper than the bigger stores. The store is fine but the entrance to the building is a little sketchy, depending on the way you go in. I must admit that we go in through the back of the building, shown here. However, the front entrance (which is a longer walk for us) isn't much better!

Two of the ways to get into the building. Jacqui doesn't like those.

We prefer to go up this ramp, as the store is on the second floor.

Once you get there, the entrance is fine, but not fancy.

The railing could use some paint! Notice the exit sign, written in both english and arabic.