If you\u2019re looking for a great employer, ACS offers the best benefits. I’m reaping a few of those “fringe” benefits myself this year.<\/p>\n
You see, until the summer of 2020, my office was located at the secondary campus in the administration office. But as of September 1, it has been temporarily relocated to the elementary campus due to the building project.<\/p>\n
Although I miss the staff at the middle and secondary school, I am now getting to know some of the staff at the elementary school (cohorts permitting of course).<\/p>\n
But the best benefit of moving to the elementary is that almost every day after school, I am greeted by two of my 10 grandchildren.\u00a0Of course, having lollipops ready for them helps.<\/strong><\/span> But once the candy is out of the wrapper, they take me to their mom\u2019s classroom, my daughter-in-law Suzanne Riezebos\u2019 grade 2 class. And there, the two grandchildren and I play school.<\/p>\n My older granddaughter, Nadia, usually is the teacher. Yours truly and Scarlett, the younger one, are the students. Of course, I try and misbehave from time-to-time, only to either stand in the corner or be sent to the \u201cprincipal\u2019s\u201d office. The role of principal is also played by Nadia, the teacher. One day I managed to be almost expelled from the school by her<\/strong>.<\/span> If that happened, I\u2019m not sure who would be doing the payroll the next day!<\/p>\n And then there are the math tests she subjects her students to. Working with numbers all day, I confess my math skills aren\u2019t the greatest. Just ask my teacher, Miss Nadia! I have managed to get only D\u2019s and F\u2019s.<\/p>\n One day we did a very special math exercise. Miss Nadia drew four chocolate chip cookies on the white board, and I had to count how many cookies there were. The answer I gave her was \u201cthree.\u201d<\/em> Of course, her frustration (dare I say exasperation) grew: how hard can it be to count to four?!<\/p>\n Yet she graciously corrected me by stating that there were four cookies. To which I responded, \u201cBut I like chocolate chip cookies, so I ate one.<\/em>\u201d That\u2019s why there are three! Her mother overheard the exchange and couldn\u2019t help but laugh at this comic relief.<\/p>\n But Miss Nadia wasn\u2019t going to let me get away with this. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n The next day, she came up with a new strategy. She asked me which donuts I don\u2019t like. I told her. \u201cChocolate long johns<\/em>.\u201d That\u2019s all she needed to know. So she drew four long johns on the white board, and this time I couldn\u2019t wiggle my way out of this math test. I had to admit there were four as I couldn\u2019t have eaten any of them.<\/p>\n My youngest grandchild, Scarlett, is in kindergarten. She is already dreading my move back to the secondary\/middle campus in September, once the new admin office wing is ready. She keeps asking me, \u201cOpa, why do you have to move next September?<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n My move is a loss for her. But for me, it\u2019s also a gain. I will once again be on the same campus as my oldest granddaughter Alexis, my wife Louise, (aka Mrs. Riezebos), and my son Mike (aka Mr. Riezebos). We just won\u2019t be playing school, but I\u2019m sure we can come up with some number games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If you\u2019re looking for a great employer, ACS offers the best benefits. I’m reaping a few of those “fringe” benefits myself this year. You see, until the summer of 2020, my office was located at the secondary campus in the administration office. But as of September 1, it has been temporarily relocated to the elementary […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":155,"featured_media":5125,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-5121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-relationships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abbotsfordchristian.com\/insideout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abbotsfordchristian.com\/insideout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abbotsfordchristian.com\/insideout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abbotsfordchristian.com\/insideout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/155"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abbotsfordchristian.com\/insideout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abbotsfordchristian.com\/insideout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abbotsfordchristian.com\/insideout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abbotsfordchristian.com\/insideout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abbotsfordchristian.com\/insideout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abbotsfordchristian.com\/insideout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5121"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abbotsfordchristian.com\/insideout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=5121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Just Ask Miss Nadia<\/h2>\n
I Ate It<\/h2>\n
I’m Okay With It<\/h2>\n