Thursday March 1st

Had breakfast with Karen and Jens. Did reading for 20th century european literature about communism and the russian revolution.
Went for a random run on the roads around where I live. It was nice and partly sunny and warm out.
Did some more homework.
Walked to Stenurten. Noticed the road I turn off of was blocked off by police. Turns out there is a house that people are squatting in. They were offered another house but didn't take it. The police went in on a raid today. There were apparently lots of fires and violence. I didn't see any of that just evidence of the road being shut down. There was a news helicopter overhead. All the students parents were called and the school was evacuated and closed a tiny bit early. Public transportation buses were not being allowed through that area. Pretty crazy.
My day at the daycare was awesome. I correctly identified one of the girls who has special needs. The pedagogues are going to be bringing in people to assess her and maybe get her more individualized help. She has behavioral/social problems. She won't take no for an answer and doesn't read people's facial expressions or body language well. She is the one who stole my mitten and went running around with it, keeps trying to pick me up, pulled on my hair all through lunch even though I repeatedly told her to stop. She also "cried" (there were no real tears) and was making a whole lot of noise because she had to share turns on the tetherball at recess.
The children did a lot of coloring in the lines in coloring book tracings today. There was a popular series of Snow White pics. No original drawing which made me sad.
It was one girls birthday so she a group went off for a party. She came back with a small danish flag (that is part of the tradition on b-days here).
Elizabeth was late coming in to Stenurten because of the drama with the squatters.
There was a PCD dinner of pizza. We also watched a movie about Turkish music. I'm not quite sure why other than that both the practicum professor and the intern are from Turkey. There seems to be a fairly substantian eastern european/middle eastern population here. Maybe I'm just not used to it because those aren't big immigrant groups in MA.