No...I'm not talking about Roberto Luongo. I'm talking about intruders in our house that were slightly larger than mice, but they decided not to stay, as the mice have happily decided. Basically, we woke up on Wednesday morning to find that in the night, some guys had hopped up on our balcony, come into my/nathan's room (right off the balcony), and stolen nathan's music/video player, and my grocery money and digital camera (with 200 photos on it....dang.) while we slept. The scary thing is that those items were a couple feet from where we slept...so I'm kinda glad we didn't wake up, cuz I dunno what kind of ruckus would've went down...I mean, I would've felt bad for making the thieves have to deal with two burly Canadian boys that late at night.
I find I have no patience when I'm teaching with a big headache. I've kinda been pretty drained in the last week or so, since I had that run in with a bit of illness, and it's really been teaching me all sorts of things about just taking it slow and having patience when I'm teaching. It's definitely hard to appreciate the kids that like to yell in class when you have a headache to begin with. Bah humbug.
But this week has been good, despite being tired. We've had a pretty good time working on a group science project, and writing a letter as a class to Mr. Sean (the awesome teacher that taught these guys last year in grade 2 - he's a teacher in the states now, and after getting in touch with him by email, he said our classes could do pen pals stuff to help the kids practice their writing skills!). So the week has been tiring one, but tomorrow is friday, and I'm realizing that after tomorrow, there's only two more weeks of class before christmas break...and then i leave! And I'm starting to feel like I'm even going to miss the headache-bringers of the class. It's definitely going to be tough to leave.
ALSO! We've started practicing "we wish you a Merry Christmas", because grade 3 is going to perform that song at the Christmas concert...and oh man, it has potential to be one hilarious performance.
Peace.
2 comments:
Tim!
reading this is so exciting.
all i can think when i read these pposts are.. "Tim Martin is exactly where he should be." and Tim, its soo cool to hear about you being in a place were you are challanged. and where you fit.
I rememeber seeing you, and a bunch of other people in DR running around with the kids, and i dunno.... the opportunity where you get to just hangout with these kids, even when its frustrating, just seems so fitting for you.
and... Yeah. i cant wait to hear about it when you get home!
Keep Smilin'.
im praying for you!
Colleen
i am going to eat you if you ever turn into a giant, flightless, deliciously spiced and unbelievably easy to poach,skin and fry in pancake batter tropical bird.
love,
matt donne
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