Thursday, February 9, 2012

I'm Here to Stay



Wow, Thursday night already!? This week has gone almost as fast as last week. But it's ok, because come tomorrow afternoon, I only have one more week of my rice topic. I'm definitely running out of ideas that have any relation to rice...

This week we had three birthdays. And as we all know, Happy Birthday just happens to be my favorite song. So it was a good week. On birthdays we end school 20 minutes early so we can have a party, which includes cake. I like this 20 minutes early part, less time on rice, which makes me one happy teacher!

The top is Oliver, he turned 3 on Monday. Next is Mina (who is very validly one of the cutest children I've ever met) and she turned 3 today! Ryan turned 6 on Monday as well. Plus, all that cake is bomb. We can't figure out how they get it so moist.

Every day I find myself falling more and more in love with these kids. I already get sad thinking about leaving some of them in five months, and then I think, wow, you still have five months, that's a long time. Or maybe I'll just have to bring some of them home, but as a friend said today, that is probably not allowed. Dangit.

Sunday, February 5, 2012

Festival


Pingxi Lantern Festival=No words to appropriately describe it. And my pictures don't even do it justice. But what I can say is that it was beautiful, and crowded, and awesome all at the same time. Definitely put that on your bucket list.














This is us in the middle of the night trying to get home. And after looking through these pictures again, they are not doing the real thing justice. And my neck is very sore from looking up all night, I kept running into things because I was always looking up. But what do they say? Pain is the price of beauty?

Friday, February 3, 2012

The Runway

I was going to do a fun little post about my week, but I'm too lazy. This week was busy, and ended with a kid on the front row of class blowing chunks today as I was speaking about fruit. But here, I'll give you a little hint at what I'll be doing tomorrow...
minus the leading man, and all the singing. Except we totally know this will be going through my head all day. It's all I can think about.