All day long they kept mysteriously referring to the Secret Assembly during the last class period... rumors were abundant and ranged from a presidential visit to a principal reprimand.
Last class began, and the power promptly went out all over the building. But we had the assembly anyway; they just opened the exterior doors to let in the light. Apparently our local NBC affiliate, WHO-TV channel 13, was giving one of its "Golden Apple" awards to a teacher at North High School. We were thrilled to find out that it was being awarded to First Sergeant Jackson, who's the teacher in charge of the Marines JROTC program there. Of all the teachers at that school, he's who I would've picked too. He's an exceptional individual. My very own Erica was one of the students who wrote a letter recommending him for the award, and she was interviewed by the TV crew, so she may be on TV.
Anyway, it was a good thing, and NHS is going to be on the 10PM news tonight -- for something GOOD instead of something unpleasant.
The power outage is apparently spread over the entire north and east side of DSM and is due to high winds taking out a transformer somewhere. I'm thankful that our own power here at home is fine... although I just heard some glass shattering outside, and when I went to investigate, I found that the neighbor's upstairs storm-window had blown off and shattered on the sidewalk in front of their house. Yowza.
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