Friday, July 20

Today the latest movie version of "Hairspray" comes out. I know lots of people are excited about tonight because Harry Potter comes out, but I'm excited about "Hairspray." I saw the musical at the Civic Theater last month, which was timely since the movie opened about 6 weeks after I saw it on stage. If you are not into musicals, just think of this... John Travolta plays the MOTHER of the lead character (that's him in the top right corner of the poster). Anyway, it's a great story with wonderful, funny, catchy music about being who you are, breaking down barriers and stereotypes.

I am anxious to see the students' projects next week -- the CASH "invention" project and their 1-2 video for Paul's thread. The beginnings I saw on some of their computers intrigues me.

Sunday we have our Science Center trip. It's too bad we couldn't schedule it when it wasn't family visitation day so more of the students who wanted to go could go. But family is important. It will be good for them to catch up and see some of the stuff that the students have been working on and see their room and stuff. Maybe students from the other clusters will be interested in coming along - those that don't have family visiting. I have a student that is attending at UCSC's COSMOS. I don't know if his family would be able to go there to visit - it's a long drive. I hope he's have a great time, meeting fun and interesting people and learning new things.

I hope everyone has a great weekend. I'm still trying to think of a prize for the best "invention." I got some ideas from the students today. I'll keep thinking...