WOW

What a day....actually quite good if I do say so myself. I had class 4th period, which meant I got to sleep a lil bit later than usual. I didnt really prepare anything to do with my students. There are still some slackers who havent taken the test. So while I had class, they would have to take it which meant I had to watch them like a hawk to make sure they didnt cheat, which means there was free time for the other students.

The 2 students who took the make up were done fairly quickly. I honestly was kinda happy. I had prepared some stuff to do with the students the other day, but was reluctant to actually do it cuz I know a lot of them just wanted to relax. In the 9th class they just wanna play cards and talk all day, so I assumed thats what the 10g wanted to do as well. But it never hurts to have some stuff to do on standby.....

Which is awesome. When the students finished early, I could sense that the 10g wanted to do something. They all looked so bored and pitiful. So I asked if they wanted to continue doin nothin, or if they wanted to do this activity I thought of the other day. Mind you, I literally can pluck something out the air and make it an activity. They were up for it, so we began.....

I decided to focus on speaking, and games for these last few days of class. I came up with a topic, in this case communication, and centered different activities and discussion questions around that. So today we talked about different ways people communicate (via phone, internet, letters, sign language). Then I asked what is necessary for communicating with a person. We played the telephone game, where you whisper something to someone and it trickles down a line of people and the last person has to say what they hear. It was quite fun and that helped them understand the question (you have to speak the same language, speak clearly, be able to understand the person etc) Then we talked about people who cant speak at all, and how they communicate. That lead into a miming game I thought of. Boys vs. Girls vs Me. I had a list and told them to think of words that could be mimed. The other two teams would watch someone mime a word from their list and if someone from the other teams could guess the word, they get a point, if not, the mimer keeps the point. It turned out better than I thought. The boys won, by a very wide margin (I had 1 damn point), but it was very fun.......

The next class was excited about the game and they did well also. My last class was the 9g and they seemed so bubbly today. I walked in and they just knew I would give them free time. Some of them were huddled around a table and began to scream for me to come over and show them how to shuffle cards. I demonstrated my superb shuffling skills, and showboated for a while, before I broke out the UNO cards and they began to get a game going. They seemed to really have fun, and even tho I just watched, I couldnt help but join in the fun by laughing at mistakes and comments people made. Then one of the girls showed me some magic tricks that were actually pretty good.

A teacher invited me to cafe and altho I had my reservations, she is really nice so I decided to go. Butterflies were clearly flyin from my wallet, but I figured if I got a coffee, I should be ok cuz I eventually found 57 stotinki strategically hiding in my bag. I dont even drink coffee....SAD, I know....

I talked with about 3 of the teachers and altho I didnt understand EVERYTHING, I must admit I held my own. WE talked about piracy, illegal downloads, the lady who has to pay millions cuz she got busted and some other stuff *pats self on the back*

It was rainin bout time we were ready to leave. I felt a bit stupid cuz the one damn day I choose to wear open toe sandals, it rains!!! What an idiot.....But the rain felt good on my humongous toes....lol

Im sittin here now waiting for the rain to subside so I can go to the supermarket and buy food. Ive been tellin people all day how I have just ketchup, jelly and ice in my fridge. I figure I should do something bout that, and of course, THANK the LORD the supermarket takes credit cards, cuz i am bummin it something serious these days. I was thinkin I should go now tho. Its just a light drizzle out and Im sure not many people will be at the market, which means I dont have to worry about being a walkin freak show for these people. I get to tense and uncomfy when I feel people staring at me......

Overall, a surprisingly pleasant day! and it gets better, im on the second shift tomorrow (class begins at 1). Why this is happening in the middle of the week and the end of the damn month, I dont know and dare not ask any questions. But the 10g also told me that they are goin on an excursion fri and wont be in school mon and tues (the last few days of work) and if the 9g decided not to come (god willing) then that means tomorrow is my UNofficial last day, since I dont work fri. I suppose Ill have to check in mon and tues. but im gonna shoot the gun and say my last day is tom......

alright folks, its that time again. Im gonna go pretend I have a life, altho we all know ill be layin in bed watchin tv/runnin to the comp to check my email like every 3.2 seconds. Good day all....

Hot Damn

So in the "I may potentially have a life" news of the day just wanted to run down my weekend for all you losers who had nothing to do.

Fri started off chill. I made a lovely dinner and watched tv and musice videos all night. Sat is when the real MAGIC began. Ofcourse becuz I live in Bulgaria, something out of the ordinary had to occur, and low and behold my lights went out TWICE. Last sun the power in my entire apt building went out. Before that I tried to have a nice Thanksgiving dinner with Jojo when all of a sudden as I was FRYING CHICKEN (the chicken was literally in the oil frying) and all the power goes out. I mean we were in my apt boggled cuz I had no flashlight, no candles, no heat and we were both so hungry we could eat 2 cows, some goats, feta cheese AND drink some sour cherry juice (ok maybe that was just me).

So anway, I call this lady from my school and she calls the maintenance guy to come fix the power. She said he would come in an hour, and I just kept thinkin that I could die in that time. Fortunately for the world, I didnt. he came and fixed it and all was right with the world. BUT WAIT, the power shut off again a few hours later. Jojo was at my house then, and we both were sittin in the house just in the dark. Chillin. I called and the maintenance guy came again and fixed the power.

So, we got all dolled up and headed out. I had on this bangin dress, showing the girls and the booty. Black pumps, makeup in check, lookin like a grown up. Someting I dont do often in Bulgaria (ok NEVER). So we head to my peeps house, get our drink on, then go to the club. Now as usual, all the dudes was eyein me, but no one said anything. Jojo and I danced and partied in our own lil bubble and had such a good time.

Soon enough we will be in Turkey belly dancin....hahahaha Oh let the good times roll!

How Cute....

So in an unprecedented move, I will post something good today! Aside from having a decent day today, I bought a new shirt to complete an outfit I'm wearing to a X-mas banquet, and I went to a ballet performance.

From the beginning: School was pretty decent. The student who I wrote about in another blog who was disrepectful apologized to me! Yes, he APOLOGIZED. He said that his behavior was bad, and he was really sorry and it wouldn't happen again. So of course I was already floating on cloud 1913. I'm working on the Nativity and I have my 9th graders acting out the story. Altho there are no Will Smiths or Julia Roberts in my class, they did pretty ok. They created their own dialogues to go with the story which we learned last week, and began to act it out in front of the class in 4 different scenes. I'm hoping to get more feeling out of them tho......

Next: I was invited to a banquet on Monday and I have a nice dress to wear but no shirt. so I went out today in search of something not so expensive. I had to pay 40 leva for a plain white button up shirt, but it really was the cheapest I could find. I met up with Dora's daughter and we had dinner together. She speaks really good English and she is funny. We were joking around and it felt good to laugh with someone. We actually went to a few places that we didn't like so we left. One place we went to was really smokey and I almost hacked up a lung. I could have swore someone shouted out nigger (but I'll pretend I heard something else) and the waitress never came back to the table after dropping off the menu. We settled for the pizza place and I had pasta.

Then: I went to a X-mas ballet performance. It was so cute. The kids were adorable and they didn't look half bad. The costumes kinda confused me, as they didn't go very well with the music and were just odd, but the dancing was very nice. Check the pics up top.......

Overall, today was a good day.....Hope you all had good days as well, and if not, I don't mind if you pretend that you are me (most people do anyway)

Shout out to Dre too. I wear a size 11 and it damn sure is hard to find that size. I feel your pain!