Guess what? I actually have some humorous stories to share with you.
Last week I was returning to my classroom after lunch and I hear “She’s coming, she’s coming.” I’m thinking, “Oh no. What have they done this time?” I get up to my classroom and I see a toilet paper barrier (like yellow police tape) around my window. I look down and there is a dead bird. Yes, a dead bird…in my classroom. Side note: sometimes birds fly into my classroom but they always make it out.
Here is our theory:
A bird flew in the window and then somehow turned around and tried to fly out. Instead of going out the open side, it flew into the side that was closed. And yes, there are pictures. Check out facebook.
Not for the faint of heart (or stomach)
I am staying at someone’s house and I grabbed a box of cereal out of their cupboard. I noticed black specks in it but I thought they were seeds b/c the cereal contained dry fruit. After several bites, I realized the fruit in the box wouldn’t have seeds. I picked up one of the “seeds,” examined it, and thought it looked like a seed. I ate it and realized it didn’t crunch. I leaned closer into my bowl and saw the other “seeds” had legs. (This can be fairly common. Bugs do get into our food.) And yes, I quickly dumped the cereal and moved onto box #2-one without “seeds.”
For the end-of-the-year banquet (junior-senior banquet), the juniors make a senior predictions movie. I had to take a few students off campus to film one clip. As we were coming back, one student wanted a coke so I pulled over by a boutique. It happens to be on a roundpoint and there was no place to park. The other students told me to just keep driving around the roundpoint. I went around once but the student still didn’t have his coke. I went around again and started to get dizzy. At least this time I saw him talking to the boutique guy. We started around again. I told them I wouldn’t be able to do more than 3 times because I was getting sick. Fortunately we saw the kid on the side of the road with his thumb out so all was well. We picked him up, turned the corner and drove STRAIGHT home.
Monday, May 17, 2010
Thursday, April 29, 2010
oh to be a kid again
Random comment before I begin...the blog page came up in English. Wahoo! (Usually it comes up in French and I have to guess which button to push.)
Do you ever have those days when you wish you were a little kid? When you just want to fold your arms and ignore the world around you? As an adult, those days stink because you know you can't do that. Christ still calls us to be righteous, to turn the other cheek, and to keep living for Him. I must admit, I have had days here when that's tough. For perhaps the first time in my life, I really have to rely on the fact that my worth is from nothing else but Christ. His opinion of me is the only one that matters. While the barrage of opinions, advice/criticism, etc pours in, I must find myself in His arms. That's hard for me. As a people pleaser, it's painful to know that I can't please everyone. No matter how hard I try, I can't do it here. And perhaps that is one of the biggest lessons God is trying to teach me.
Do you ever have those days when you wish you were a little kid? When you just want to fold your arms and ignore the world around you? As an adult, those days stink because you know you can't do that. Christ still calls us to be righteous, to turn the other cheek, and to keep living for Him. I must admit, I have had days here when that's tough. For perhaps the first time in my life, I really have to rely on the fact that my worth is from nothing else but Christ. His opinion of me is the only one that matters. While the barrage of opinions, advice/criticism, etc pours in, I must find myself in His arms. That's hard for me. As a people pleaser, it's painful to know that I can't please everyone. No matter how hard I try, I can't do it here. And perhaps that is one of the biggest lessons God is trying to teach me.
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
I am here...or there
I know, I know. I never seem to have time to do this anymore. This is a belated blog about Europe.
It was green. It was cool. The end. JK
Here are the highlights:
Our flight was delayed out of Dakar so we missed our connection in Lisbon. No fear. TAP gave us vouchers-16 Euros each (which I think is about $24). The catch-We had to spend it in one spot. My friend Danielle and I scoured the Lisbon airport looking at all of the eating spots. Then we saw it--McDonalds. We shared one voucher (with two other people) for breakfast. Three hours we were back on the hunt. Again, we ended up in front of McDonalds. We spent another voucher, this time with no help.
I think that's the first and last time I'll eat McDonalds twice in a day. Aren't you proud Schmoe? ;)
We got to Kandern around 10:30 pm, only 5 hours later than we planned ;). The next day, my super, awesome friend Anne took Danielle and I around a neighboring town where we hiked up to castle ruins, ate Doner Kebap (German style with lots of cabbage) and went shopping. Can you say H&M?
The best speaker at the conference was Wess Stafford, the president of Compassion International. What an amazing testimony. Book recommendation-Too Small to Ignore
After the conference, Danielle and I spent time in Zurich. We just wanted some first-world living. I was quite proud of us and the Swiss transportation system. We took a train, tram, and bus to get to our bed and breakfast.
Our bed and breakfast was a new one so we got a pretty good rate. Let me tell you, it was fancy. There were more switches than we knew what to do with.
Our Zurich adventures: shopping, “hiking” around a mountain, lake cruise, AND seeing snow. The views were amazing. We could see the Alps from our bnb window. We kept commenting that they looked painted. They were just so picturesque.
The thing that surprised me the most about Zurich were the costs. A McDonalds value meal was approx $15, and that was one of the cheapest meals we saw. We got creative and went to grocery stores most of the time but still…
Last adventure-landing in Zurich. After going down the steps onto the runway, we saw a man with a sign that read SAL-Dakar. Danielle and I debated about asking if it was for us. Finally I worked up the courage and it was. We (and a few others) got to take our own van and enter in our own door in order to make our connecting flight.
Lesson learned-Don’t be afraid to ask the “dumb” questions.
Well, that’s the shortened version of our trip. Feel free to ask about our adventures such as seeing an adult onesie on a rack in Zurich.
It was green. It was cool. The end. JK
Here are the highlights:
Our flight was delayed out of Dakar so we missed our connection in Lisbon. No fear. TAP gave us vouchers-16 Euros each (which I think is about $24). The catch-We had to spend it in one spot. My friend Danielle and I scoured the Lisbon airport looking at all of the eating spots. Then we saw it--McDonalds. We shared one voucher (with two other people) for breakfast. Three hours we were back on the hunt. Again, we ended up in front of McDonalds. We spent another voucher, this time with no help.
I think that's the first and last time I'll eat McDonalds twice in a day. Aren't you proud Schmoe? ;)
We got to Kandern around 10:30 pm, only 5 hours later than we planned ;). The next day, my super, awesome friend Anne took Danielle and I around a neighboring town where we hiked up to castle ruins, ate Doner Kebap (German style with lots of cabbage) and went shopping. Can you say H&M?
The best speaker at the conference was Wess Stafford, the president of Compassion International. What an amazing testimony. Book recommendation-Too Small to Ignore
After the conference, Danielle and I spent time in Zurich. We just wanted some first-world living. I was quite proud of us and the Swiss transportation system. We took a train, tram, and bus to get to our bed and breakfast.
Our bed and breakfast was a new one so we got a pretty good rate. Let me tell you, it was fancy. There were more switches than we knew what to do with.
Our Zurich adventures: shopping, “hiking” around a mountain, lake cruise, AND seeing snow. The views were amazing. We could see the Alps from our bnb window. We kept commenting that they looked painted. They were just so picturesque.
The thing that surprised me the most about Zurich were the costs. A McDonalds value meal was approx $15, and that was one of the cheapest meals we saw. We got creative and went to grocery stores most of the time but still…
Last adventure-landing in Zurich. After going down the steps onto the runway, we saw a man with a sign that read SAL-Dakar. Danielle and I debated about asking if it was for us. Finally I worked up the courage and it was. We (and a few others) got to take our own van and enter in our own door in order to make our connecting flight.
Lesson learned-Don’t be afraid to ask the “dumb” questions.
Well, that’s the shortened version of our trip. Feel free to ask about our adventures such as seeing an adult onesie on a rack in Zurich.
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