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Saturday, October 15, 2016
Friday, October 14, 2016
Thursday, October 13, 2016
The ghost has a name!
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OK, all you fans of old western movies and John Wayne, the ghost who is believed to haunt my hotel room is John Chisum. He died here in 1884.
I guess it's a good thing his former buddy, Billy the Kid isn't here with him!
Wednesday, October 12, 2016
Where do I begin!
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So, we are staying at the Basin Park Hotel which is the sister hotel to The Crescent Hotel. Both hotels are old and reportedly haunted. We chose the Basin over the Crescent because of it's location and lower prices. LOL!
OCG booked us on the ghosts tour of our hotel and I was excited! I even took a couple screen shots of some of yesterdays Facebook posts to show you how excited I was....
Well, it turns out that I misunderstood. OCG booked us for two ghosts tours! The one we went to last night was at The Crescent Hotel and the stories are amazing. I'll share those with you later ---if I survive!
I do need to tell you this one story though. It happened after the tour. There was one girl on the tour that I ended up next to several times and we talked to each other as she exclaimed that she would never stay at that hotel! She even waited with me in one of the morgue rooms as I took a picture, so I wouldn't be in there by myself. (Yes, this hotel had a morgue!) There was a guy with her who stood and smiled as we talked, but he never said anything and I never actually saw him make any physical contact with her. It didn't seem weird to me at the time.
After the tour was over, OCG and I were out in front of The Crescent waiting for the shuttle back to our hotel. The girl I had talked to earlier and the guy came out. Again they were side by side, but not holding hands or touching in any way. She spoke and he just smiled. We watched as they went to two different cars. His was a truck. She pulled out and drove off first and he followed.
A few moments later, he pulled back into the parking lot and parked in the very same place. He got out and walked back toward the hotel. I smiled and asked if he had forgotten something.
Without smiling in any way, he kept walking toward the front door of the hotel as he said,
"I can never leave this place"
OCG took one look at my reaction to this and doubled over in laughter, I yelled out after the guy...
"What the hell, dude! That's just not right!"
He never turned around.
This guy was not part of the ghost stories that were shared at the hotel and his clothes were modern. That means that either his story is one the hotel has chosen not to share or that one of the older ghost is really stepping up his haunting game.
OCG says the guy was just messing with me, but I'm not so sure!
Anyway, tonight, we are going to the ghost tour of our hotel. Yes, I'm pre-posting this, you know, in case I don't survive!
Today we went to so many places and saw so many things and took so many pictures. Again, I'll save those for another time. (Hopefully!)
In our down time today, I went online looking for ghost stories about our hotel in hopes they were half as interesting as the ones from The Crescent.
I found this interesting tidbit.....
Guess what room we're in? That's right! Room 309!
Seriously! I knew the hotel was haunted, but I had no idea our room was!
I will tell you that I woke up very early on Tuesday morning for no reason, but it didn't feel right and the ghost walk from The Crescent was on my mind so I just said over and over to myself,
"Just don't open your eyes! If you don't open your eyes you can't see any ghosts!"
I repeated that over and over until I fell back to sleep. LOL!
Hopefully, I'll be back tomorrow to share some more photos and stories with you.
Tuesday, October 11, 2016
We have arrived!
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***Come back tomorrow for the "brother" version of this word art!***
We're in Arkansas, y'all! I just feel bad that we forgot Gilbert at home. Gilbert, is the name I decided to give to my new gnome friend. I mean Gilbert is just one of those first names that's so uncool it's cool. Gilbert, fits him perfectly!
When I realized that we forgot him, I wanted to turn around and go back but mean old OCG wasn't having any of that. I let him know that it was going to be all his fault if we get home and walk into a scene from Home Alone!
Yeah, it's a good thing I never actually had children of my own! I mean I forgot my hippie gnome! Who knows what I would do with an actual child!
Anyway, here are a couple of pictures for you from The Natural Bridge...
Monday, October 10, 2016
Sunday, October 9, 2016
I have another HUGE favor to ask!
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I know, I know, I'm super selfish and always asking for something, but I promise this isn't for me!
I'm hoping that I can count on you guys to help cheer up and cheer on a first year teacher at my school. She's fresh out of college. She moved here to Memphis just for the job and is a 13 hour drive away from her family. I think she's going to grow into an amazing teacher, but that first year is always the hardest and she's teaching fifth grade. FIFTH GRADE! That alone takes the roughness of the first year and multiplies it by about 5,000!
She gets to school early and stays late. She brings kids to my room every Friday to read to my students. Sometimes she will spend her lunch break in my class observing because she says my students cheer her up
I went to her room before the students came in right before Fall Break started and found her sitting there in the dark with the door locked crying. We were about to leave for a week long break and while I was practically turning cartwheels in the hallway she was still so overwhelmed she broke down and cried.
I remember those days! I remember thinking that I had made a mistake and becoming a teacher was a stupid thing to do. No one cares about us.....No one respects us.....AND.....no one will ever pay us the amount of money we deserve for the work that we do!
Heck, I still have those days! I'll probably have one of those days on the Monday that we go back to school and if I'm going to have one of those days, I know that she will!
I know that there is going to be a change at my school next month and I'm hoping that it will help to make her job easier. I've even spoken up on her behalf, but I'm a nobody, so I don't know if it will make a difference or not.
If this change doesn't happen the way I hope it will, I'm afraid that she'll give up. I'm afraid that she will become one of the millions of teachers that leave this profession every year. They say that one out of every 10 new teachers quit after their first year. I completely understand why they leave, but I don't want her to be that one!
I don't want her to quit before she's given herself a chance to realize the potential she has to be a world class teacher. I don't want her to give up on something that she worked so hard to qualify for before she realizes the potential she has to make someones life better. I don't want her to give up on herself before she realizes that even if she only reaches one student, THAT student may be the one who changes the world. I don't want her to give up on herself before THAT student realizes how much he/she needs her. I don't want her to give up even though the pay is bad and fifth graders can be disrespectful and no matter how hard she works the politicians will always say it isn't hard enough. I don't want her to give up before she has the chance to hear THAT student say, "Thank you!"
I just don't want her to give up!
Would you guys please send her a card or a note or something to cheer her on? Maybe you could share a story about a teacher that made a difference in your life or in your child's life. Maybe you could just make her smile.
I know you guys won't let me down, because you never do!
Thank you so much!!!!!
Miss Lukow
Levi Elementary School
135 W. Levi Road
Memphis, TN 38109
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