Riverbend's shops for school supplies HW 32

In this blog Riverbend talks about how in general this academic year is going to be different. She starts off by telling us about how she goes on a school shopping trip with her cousin, cousin’s wife and E. They look for school supplies for Riverbend’s cousin’s children. She describes the color erasers and whinnie the pooh and Barbie notebooks they pick out. She states “It felt a bit ridiculous-four grown people all out shopping for Barbie notebooks and strawberry-scented erasers . . . but I knew it was necessary” (Rivebend pg 95). After buying the school supplies they go back home where Riverbend’s parents were watching the kids. She tells us how the older child liked everything but the younger child was mad because she didn’t like whinnie the pooh anymore. The next morning Riverbend’s cousin took the girls to school. There were a lot of people in the school but the classrooms where empty with no furniture the only good thing was the broken windows had been replaced. The teachers had been asked this year to “not teach specific topics in the history and geography books” (Riverbend page 97). Riverbend’s cousin met with the teacher and other fathers to discuss security and that they agreed that their children would bring in small stools to sit on during class. For security they agreed to always have a father outside the school to guard it and they would switch off days. Riverbend described how the way kids used to leave and come to school “They always looked crisp and clean in the morning”(Riverbend page 97) “By 2 o’clock the majority of them are straggling home after school in little groups”(Riverbend page 97. She says how things are going to be different this year. She talks about how her cousin’s wife (S) is going to feel lost without the children while they’re at school. S states “It felt like they took my lungs with them- I couldn’t breathe until they got home” (Riverbend page 97).