Mi Cumple y Mas

I have just past my second birthday in a foreign country...the first being my 18th in Brazil. It was quite nice to be able to hang out in my swimsuit in March!!!  The Friday before my bday we went to a wonderful Brazilian restaurant, Fogo del Gaucho. They didn't have my most favoritest food, pao de queso, but they made it especially for me! The next day, to celebrate my 26 years on this lovely earth, a friend and I decided to hold the First Annual Beer Olympics! Events included: beer pong, flip cup, fondo blanco (chugging,) beers be (spelling?), Drinko, beer bong, and relay races in the pool! Imagine the surprise to the guests when everyone was eventually thrown into the pool. Honestly though, who didn't see that one coming? It was quite fun showing all the Ticos how Gringos spent their college years!

My students have recently discovered the wonders of my skin. If you poke my arm, it stays white for a few seconds before turning back to its beautiful golden hue. This will amuse a 6th grader for at least 3 minutes. This will annoy a teacher in at least 3 seconds.

I think it is time to have a "boundaries" talk with the kiddos. Reasoning: "Hi Ms. K! Will you be my girlfriend?" "Umm, NO." New boy: "Will you be my girlfriend?"

I have enjoyed how my girls are realizing just how gross and immature the boys are at this age. (There is such a developmental difference around 6th grade.) We do Mad Libs in my Advisory sometimes. When I ask the boys for words I get farting, licking, smelly, butt...

I have a class called Just For Boys where we play different sports each week. Well, last week I told them if they didn't put all the baseball equipment away, we wouldn't be playing baseball on Thursday. The equipment didn't get put away, SHOCKING. So, Thursday rolls around and I told them they had to think of a game to play that didn't involve ANY equipment. "What, like tag?" one 8th grader sarcastically asks. "PERFECT! Tag it is!" So I made the boys play tag. It was quite comical! The next day the boys were talking about a kid who is really quite in my Boys class, but really loud in Math. "Yeah, he has two personalities, like you. Normally you're fun Ms. K, but yesterday you were mean Ms. K. We want fun Ms. K back!"

Next week we are celebrating Pi Day at school...the teacher with the most money in his/her jar gets pied...