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Sorry for the delay in posting...I've been a busy girl!
I've gotten through my first week of teaching and am now on to the second. We had an unknown holiday today, Fundacion de Panama. It's great! I love random holidays! Feeling ok going into the second week...have a lot of fun/interesting projects lined up that'll be very interesting once they get under toe. Have to be the bad guy going back to school tomorrow. Lay down the law with a couple of groups to minimize the chatter. Writer's Workshop is dragging along. Mean Ms. Jones has to show her wrath (aka: the vampire) after two sets of WW's poked the bear (the bear is me). One group left before the bell, so now I get to keep them (I've got a wicked evil, cackle grin on) and the other just wouldn't shut their mouths! But all bad things have a bright side and after I made one group write me 'Why it's inappropriate to talk when someone else is talking', I got some very entertaining answers.
Here's a few of my favorites:
*One student turned me into a vampire, hence the call out above
*Many of them call me "Ma'am" & apologized
"We must NOT interrupt you ma'am, you will get very angry"
*One kid blamed it on a couple other students
*Many of the reasons not to was because, "It'd make Ms. Jones mad"
*And my all time favorite: "We cannot talk at the same time as another because the teacher will get confused and won't know what we are saying. She won't understand and none will get what they want. Also because it is annoying and bad and other classes will hear us and be angry and tell it to the principal. Then Ms. Jones won't work here and will get another job and then die because she will miss us a lot and a magic doctor will bring her back to life and she will teach in our school again."
At least I'm being entertained by the rising amount of writings I have to read. Hahah!
Bananananas Resort was very nice. Took a boat out to a remote island, got to swim in the Caribbean, climb a very steep mountain. Very beautiful, fun and relaxing just to get away for a little bit.
Lots of other stuff going down down here, but I've still got quite a bit of work to get done. I hope everyone is well...I'm attempting to keep up to date with all of you as far as Facebook stalking, but forgive me that I've not written a whole bunch. I might as well be beaten at school with a yardstick the way I come home so tired. I love you all! Thank you for your prayers and curiosity in reading this bloggy.
Best part of the day: Standing in the Asian grocery store letting Mami shop. I poking and prodding random things as I do. I find a wall of soaps and start sniffing. I walk a little further and find what looks like sparklers and with excited glee yelp, "Fireworks! No, sparklers!" Abby looks at my findings and says, "Incense" and cracks up. I still got a pretty good giggle, but I was definitely disappointed they weren't selling sparklers along a wall in a grocery store. Also, I found myself picking up galleta jellies and jumping to Abby saying, "Poke this!"
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