I can’t even express how happy I
am to be on break! Getting my kids ready for the Christmas program, and
planning the class Christmas party has worn me out! The Christmas program was
very good and ran quite smoothly. My kids sang Joy to the World with pre-K and
1st grade. All Thursday afternoon, I wrapped gifts for my kids. My
mom, and members of my church and high school sent me some wonderful gifts! I
spoiled my kids a lot with how many gifts they got! On Wednesday, I told them
that if they could say their memory verse, they could pick a stuffed animal.
They were SO excited! They loved them so much some even brought them upstage
when we went to perform our song. |
| Some of the vehicles for our parade |
Friday morning, the long awaited
day, finally arrived. I only had one kid, (my favorite student who is only 4) until
8:45! So we spent time in the 2nd grade room until more kids came. I
had to send one of my boys home because his mom brought him to school with some
major pink eye. I felt bad since it was the Christmas party but it’s really not
a good idea to bring your kid to school with something so contagious! She
brought him to school with a high fever before too because he really wanted to
come. The kids were crazy and hyper from so much sugar and excitement but it
was fun! I received 2 beautiful Pohnpeian skirts from two of my students! I now
own 4 of them!
After school, a bunch of high
schoolers got into some trucks and cars and we went around town throwing candy
to people on the sides of the road. They had a microphone and amplifier in one
of the trucks and with all the ruckus we were making people could hear us far
ahead of time coming down the roads. It was a lot of fun!
Danny’s 7th graders,
who I teach Romanian to once a week were quite disappointed when I could not
teach them this last week. So they made me something in class using my last
name (Using their spelling):
Cute
Oh too lovely
Nice
Singer
Top best lady girl
Angel
National teacher
Teacher
Important to the students
Not available
Eternal
Short hare
Cudley
Unlikely to be bad
Not available and unlikely to be
bad are probably my favorites because they just crack me up!
My favorite student Summer, was
sitting on my lap during recess one day and I asked her what she wanted for
Christmas.
“A tikar.”
“A tikar.”
“A what?”
“A tikar!”
“Do you mean a guitar?”
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| Staff Christmas party! Love these girls. :) |
She puts her hands on her hips and
nods with a cute smirk on her face. Goodness I love her! She just brightens up
my day everyday! During our dress rehersal with all the kids from pre-k to 8th
in the gym, we had to keep our young kids quietly entertained. Karyn had Jen
had given each of us teachers a pipe cleaner and we made headset “mics” out of
them and the kids loved them! So when we gave them each a pipe cleaner to keep
busy, they of course all made headsets like us. Sometime in the chaos of
recess, Summer lost her headset and came crying to me. I gave her mine and she
happily went on her way again.
I can’t believe I’ve been here for
almost 5 months already! This year is going by SO fast! I love being here so
much, yet sometimes, I wish I were at home. I’m sure there will be tears at
Christmas time for me but I’ve been getting a lot of love from friends and
family back home, which has been amazing!
Merry Christmas everyone!
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