5 Things of this week
1. The classroom is a wonderful place J It always amazes me how much energy I get
when I am in the classroom teaching. It could be five minutes before class and I am
so tired and not ready at all, but once I walk into the classroom and get on a roll I
am never ready for the bell to ring.
2. Mosquito bites are like nail polish for our skin. Every morning I wake up with new
bites. I put spray on. I get to school. I put more spray on. This is part of my daily life.
3. My students are a continual reminder to me of why I am here. They never cease to bring me joy. Yes, there are those days when I just want to run away from them or not go to class, but at the end of the day Elisabeth and I are always falling asleep to each other telling stories from the day that involve our kids.
4. TIB(This is Belize). This is a saying that gets used lot around here.Basically it is
what we say when we refer to something that has happened that seems to us
volunteers to be ridiculously dumb, not needed, taking too long, illogical, etc. I feel
like this year I laugh more at the things I got frustrated with last year. I am not
surprised that orientation week was spent in a room with non-working AC, reading
slides word for word about how to manage a classroom. I am not surprised that it
took two Friday to get down the “Friday Schedule”due to Mass taking place. There
are just some things that will always be and will not change.
5. I missed the heat!Weird I know, but I really did. All summer long I was walking
around wearing sweat pants and hoodies. The kids at the summer camp I worked
at this summer thought I was insane for always being so bundled up. When I got
off the plane in Belize one o fmy first thoughts, after the one “it is nice to be home,”
was “it feels good to be sweating again.” It isn’t too bad right now, but there are
some days when you get out of the shower that you took not because you needed
to clean up,  but because you needded to cool down, and then you continue to sweat three minutes later. Such is life.





It's Belle! So she really doesn't like her picture taken, seriously, every time I have a camera she gets that look on her face like I'm torturing her and she runs away. But she looks great!