I am addicted to doing my laundry...

October 17, 2011

Folks, I’m now the proud owner of a washing machine… in my kitchen… plugged into the wall in my living room… Haha! I just raised my quality of life by like 20%... I really appreciate my friends for letting me do laundry in their flats, but I’ll tell you, it’s the pits. I’m SO glad I can do my laundry whenever I want!!! Now, if only I could get the stinkin’ Etisalat tech to come out and install my dang interwebz, I’d be living large. LOL.

We have our first field trip this week. It’s on Wednesday, and I only found out yesterday. But I guess it’s an incentive for the kids to really behave, or something like that. It’s not at all educational; we’re taking them to Sparky’s, which is the huge arcade/carnival thing at the mall closest to here (where I sit and drink coffee and use their free Wi-Fi). Think Chuck E. Cheese, but with no pizza, and small rides.

I haven’t been sleeping well. Or rather, I’m back into my Simpson habit of sleeping a few hours in the wee hours of the morning, and a few in the afternoon. I really wish I could avoid that and get myself back into the right swing of things. Oy… oh well.

In other news, the mother of one of my students has been on my case. About what, you ask? Anything she can think of, really. I’m not putting enough stickers on her homework, I need to encourage her to write more neatly (she’s 4 years old… her writing is going to be sloppy), etc. But she’s never spoken to me, only to Caroline, my coordinator (read supervisor). I send home one sickeningly nice, slightly sarcastic, politically correct note and BAM! Problem solved. I even got a note back thanking me for being so willing to communicate and solve the problems. But hey… it IS refreshing that my students have parents who are actively involved with their children. It’s not always the case here.

And I think it’s about time to start running again. The weather is cooling off (ha! I now consider 87°F at 10 pm to be “cooling off”) enough to where I’m starting to consider breaking out the running shoes. Maybe it’ll help me sleep better; who knows?

October 18, 2011

Guess what… I got a rose from my student with the crazy mom. And since she’s 4 years old, that means it was probably her mom’s idea. Haha!

I think that means I won.