Weird News of the Day

An anti-terrorism squad raided the home of a Danish family after mistaking a light-hearted message on their answering machine for a hostage alert. "We have been taken hostage by two children. Hurry. Help us after the beep. Now!" the Danish daily Politiken quoted the message as saying on Monday. But police in the Copenhagen suburb of Gladsaxe and worried friends, who alerted the authorities on Saturday, thought the message said: "We have been taken hostage WITH two children." Two police cars were dispatched and surprised neighbors watched as policemen cordoned off the area. Police had entered the house but the officer in charge told Politiken it had turned out to be a false alarm.

Ugh

Yesterday was interesting. It was an approx 70min drive there. I was doing a grade 10 science and 2 physics classes which made me very happy. In fact, the physics classes were both in the afternoon and both were small. Especially the first one, it only had 5 people in it! They started with 15, but had many drop out (the other class has 16 students). So being with them was great I thought. I wound up talking with them a lot. I'd love to have a situation where I was only teaching a handful of students.

The drive home was brutal. It had started to snow earlier in the day which made the roads a mess. I even lost control for a few seconds on two occasions while driving about 35-40km/h. Yeesh. The closer I got to Brantford, the better the roads got though. So around the half way point things improved.

Due to the warming today, I have myself a nasty migraine to the point where I look like a zombie. So of course, I've been called in to work today. 3 sections of math and one of music. Yeah, music. Going to be interesting to see what happens there. They didn't have a name due to it being a bit garbled on the answering machine, oh well. Should be interesting.