Over the weekend, our large school district experienced a “cyber event” which prompted them to kill the internet for at least three days. Most of us didn’t know until we arrived Monday morning that everything would have to be done without any kind of technology. So after momentary panic, plan B was put in place including the image I’ve been waiting to share on our library’s social media for a while now:

In addition, running an after school club, especially one like my Japanese Culture Club that usually runs about 40 students each week, would look a little different too. But I had fun playing (and losing) a chess match with a newer club member, coloring a page out of a Japanese-inspired coloring book that I keep for club, and doing way more connecting than I normally would. It reminds me of the joy of chill.

I’ll certainly try to channel this chill when I take a busload of them to a Comic Con this weekend. The complete opposite of chill as the adult in charge!