Oh How Time Flies!

Our staff party

Fear not, I am still here! It's been a crazy past few months but luckily it is all coming together and slowing down a bit. Within the past two months I decided not to return to my school, I went on a crazy job hunting spree, got a job, found a new roommate, and we found a place to live! Oh, and in-between there I did some  enhancing of young children's' minds.

Well, this is it. I'm in my last month of teaching abroad. Honestly, I have such an amazing summer coming up, I can't wait for the year to be over! Plus, the kiddos get a little squirrly at this point in the year..as do the teachers. For example, last week one student was playing around at lunch and he "accidentally stepped" on the faucet outside my room where a water fountain used to be. Luckily for me, the pipe connected to said faucet was inside my closet. Thankfully I happened to be in my room at the time and hear a nice "Wshhhhhh-ing" sound. As I get up to investigate, I am greeted with water...a lot of water, inching across my room. After the water managed to get 3/4 the way across my room, we got it turned off. Now...the boy who stomped...oops, I mean accidentally stepped....on the faucet got the lovely task of mopping up the mess. Enter the clown show. These kids have never held a broom before let alone actually mopped something up! It was HILARIOUS to watch. We had water spraying this way and that, kids getting sloshed on, ceilings getting whacked as they rung out their mop. Needless to say, I could barely breathe as I sat and watched them clean. I tried to upload a video but it didn't want to work. (It's also not letting me upload pics.) Sadly, I wasn't filming when the boy got a great idea to slide across the floor on his knees...only to slam face first into the tile... oh boys!

The Ladies

Speaking of water, as I type this our kitchen is being pulled apart. Apparently our dishwasher separated from the hook up thingy and therefore was continually leaking water all over our kitchen for a day. Well, this got under the tiles and such so they are currently pulling up the tiles to our kitchen. (As he left, he told me to tell the guards ASAP next time so they can call him and he'll come right over. OOPPPSS!)

So on Wednesday I am about to embark our the last class trip of the middle school...the 8th graders. These lovely students are the ones who supply about 99% of my kids quotes...this should be interesting. We are going to Manuel Antonio; it should be a great trip. I agreed to take a slew of the shall I say, less mature, kids in my group. By the way, less mature is a nice way of saying crazy. This should be an experience!

The Ladies and I have also planned a couple of fun getaways. So, my weekends are all full until August when I shall return, for good?, to the US!

I have had some great kids quotes these past months, I hope you enjoy:

"Ms. K, is it true you aren't coming back next year?"
"Yeah."
"Why, is it because you can have red hair in the US?"

"Ms. K, you look feisty today."

I was teaching my tutoring boy how Helen Keller learned to read by finger spelling and then holding an object:
He sits and thinks a moment..."So, when she learned the word for poop...?"

"Ms. K, I messed up when picking my roommates for the class trip. I forgot to put you on my list!" (this coming from a boy)
"No comment."

"Ms. K, I just wanted to give you a hug and tell you how beautiful you look today." (He was about to take a test.)

"Erin, you don't just look down at your crotch and smile." Ummm....

"Luis, please let me go."
"No Ms. K, I will not stop hugging you until you hug me back! A nice hug!"

"Listen up kids, I have some exciting news!"
"You're getting married!"
"No."
"You're pregnant!"
"Umm, NO! Maybe it's just best if I told you."