I am Le Tired so this won't be long (coughcough it's not even 9)

Look at all those Bananas or Plantains

This awesome tagged sign was more inappropriate before I put my Photoshop skills to work. I love the top hat and cane though. The fart cloud is a bonus.

Just some random Indians playing in the street

After a pouring rain and yummy bagels we stopped to pick Einstein's nose.

Things have been tricky what with not having Internet at the house (until recently), almost all my clothes are dirty (but we ARE going to laundromat tomorrow), then at school Internet cutting in and out on me, my computer not connecting to print, my files not converting right on another computer, plus the chaos of having a full teaching day! Yowza! Today was much better though. Glad it's done and so thankful tomorrow is a half day. Hahah! I need a breather, already! Maybe not a great sign, but I'm reassured by all my lovely colleagues that it'll only get easier. Classes are chatty, but do-able. Writing Workshop is going to be a challenge. I have 24 seats in my classroom, 25 counting mine; one WW has 23 students the other has a full-fledged 24. They are all so eager to be creative, but it's going to be a challenge to combine the creative/fun aspect of writing with the technical/boring. Let's pray I manage. God's gotten me this far. I know I was meant to be here, so at least I've got that on my belt.

Last weekend was interesting. To sum up, Rebecca and I were in three different worlds (practically) in one day. We hit Central, where we had a native look as well as a pack of sexual dogs and a schizo crazy lady with shorts up her bottom; we had the eclectic/Canadian villa bagel shop stop; and then the uber-Americano PriceSmart (aka Costco) run. I am constantly having to remind myself where I am...it's easy to become discombobulated here.

HUGE Hooray! We're going to the beach this coming weekend for a small resort retreat. We're staying at the awesomely named: Bananas Resort on Isla Grande. It should be a pretty good sized group of teachers going, so I'm pretty excited. PLUS, there will be snorkeling and it looks like from some pictures there will be sitting on rafts to peddle boat things! I'm so excited and I don't even know what they are! 

I hope everyone is well. Thank you for your prayers as I was trying to get through my first few days and trying to keep my head. Please continue to pray for me, this will be a good year/experience all round, but it's going to be very hard.

Thanks guys! Love Ya!

P.S. If you didn't see on Facebook, best line to date in class: "Have you been writing anything or just smelling your armpits the whole time?"--It was a completely serious question.