Just Another Monday

What is it about Mondays that are so unattractive?? I wouldn't be opposed to every weekend being a three day weekend, that's for sure. It's just so flippin' hard to wake up, get up, or do anything except think about going back to bed.

ELE is not bad. It's not bad. It's not bad. It's not bad. No matter how many times I go and realize this, I still dread going every day. It's just a waste of time. I'm sincerely going to work on changing my attitude about it, though, because there's no way around it. If you can't change something, change your attitude about it. Right? Right.

ILP classes were pretty well-behaved today, especially for it to be a Monday and my SPE for this week is Gym. Here is a random fact that I have learned about children. They must, must, must have a designated place to sit/stand in order to avoid complete chaos. They need a space to call their own. I put tape on the floor for each child to stand on and it helped a lot. We played balloon volleyball and they had such a great time! Despite Jackson punching Nick in the face, which left me no choice but to take him to Chinese teacher. He came back in tears and I felt bad, but you can't punch people in the face! Charlie also had Candy in tears today because she tried to hit the ball and missed. I swear, kids can be so mean.

My first graders.

Brayden, Nick, Jackson, and Lily

My homeroom. They are insane. But so much fun :)

Guess what gets me through Mondays? Yup, Muslim Monday. Of course we went out for that tonight. I tried something new, and once again, I was slightly disappointed! I don't know if I'll ever like anything as much as I like Chow Mien. After, we stopped by a candy store. The lady told Sam that she had only ever seen three white people before in her life. And there were 13 of us in there... She was overjoyed and of course she wanted to be our friend. She asked us to come back often.

Megan bought some tea in there that was delicious so when we went to the market, I bought two bottles of it myself. Along with four red gatorades, peanut butter, bleach, trash bags, a tupperware container, strawberry jam, and water. That's right, I had to buy water. The school hasn't delivered any for us since we ran out and we don't know when we'll get more. Fabulous, right? I'm not impressed with this situation. Of all the things we can and do do without, water should not be one of them.

When we left the market, we passed the night market. Guess what girlfriend had to stop for? I have a serious problem. I need help. I can't stop eating dumplings. I will die when I go back to America and get their version of dumplings at some "Chinese" restaurant. Which, by the way, is the biggest scam you guys buy into! That's not real Chinese food!!! But it is still good, I will give you that. In my defense, I only ate half of them three and put the rest in the fridge for my lunch tomorrow.