Thursday, August 23, 2007

look into the world of

my 11th graders, who have been some of the most enjoyable people to meet, ever in my life, have created blogs as part of our 'national program' english class. you can access our ever-evolving web-logs through my teacher blog at: www.iwillsheepfarm.blogspot.com.

Today will be my first day of Tae Kwon Do (...uh, spell check, please) training. one day soon, i will be a warrior princess. once i have the garb (belt and all) and a camera, i'll post a pic to make you laugh out loud.

it's strange that a person can have numerous infestations of the critter kind and love some and hate others. geckos, for example, are highly enjoyable, especially when falling onto your head during one of their ceiling capers. cockroaches, on the other hand, make me want to scream expleltives. ants, i can live with.

my dear, sweet, amazing, spirited, contempletive, whimsical, insightful friend carrie reeb arrived two days ago. she got a job at my school and has now been swept up into a whirlwind of job-training-on-the-spot while a new round of cultural adjustments barrage her on every side. she handles herself so well. and i love it that we share a room with one fake wall between us. we can hear each other teach.

i nearly fell off the ojek this morning as i desperately tried to side-saddle it (skirt-clad) on a motorbike that i realized had a taillight where the handgrip should have been. nevertheless, the mountains were breath-taking and i can't wait to see them again on the way home.