One day we're gonna live in paris, I promise

this is a simple simple blog to one give a shout out to Dena aka Deener who sent me a glorious package.

And to the staff at Hill Middle School especially one Ms. Sue Johnson who organized getting a card together with letters from my old co-workers! It really made teh day to have some notes from home!

In other news, parents meetings are this week. Which means that I awkwardly wait in my apartment while they have meetings in the cafeteria.

Also, this week is AISEC week aka a group of young people from all over the world come to lead different activities and meetings with my students in English. yesterday, I did some hosting, but today I had a French lesson with my 5th graders. Who I think beleive I'm teh funniest person who has ever lived. They are pretty much alone in this department, other than my mom, who mostly just laughs at my misery and not necessarily my jokes. In fact, that's a common theme amongst people who are close to me. . . perhaps my tries at sympathy are laughable, skill to work on, looking more pathetic so people will do things for me to comfort me. Such as, giving me free vacations.

Peace Corps gave us all the "awesome" gift of an extra day of leave! woo! why you ask are we graced with such an awesome gift. Oh it's because we all got vaccinated for H1N1 within the end of the month (nothing says vacation like swine flu vaccines). I'm currently undecided as to what to do with said day off. First, I have to figure out when my vacations are, hard to do, because asking is awkward. next, I have to plan a vacation. I'm thinking about Turkey with some friends. Because it's cheap and quick and well, nothing says I need a vacation like Turkey.

Today, I had another interesting encounter with the lady who runs the kitchen and cleaning in school. Something along the lines of her telling me that the Baker didn't bring the bread today and so when I was eating my soup there wasn't any. I told her this wasnt' a problem. She joked about the weight I've been losing here. She kept doing an action like she was a synchronized swimmer or beauty queen just come out of the water. She made another joke about one of something, i didn't really get it. I really dont' understand a good half of my life here, but I've adjusted to not knowing/having any clue about what's going on around you and just kind of going with the I mean I guess this is teh right way to do things flow.

I had a dream I owned a scooter. . . one to get around in teh states, I wasn't there but I remember making the comment about me getting the scooter specifically for life in the states. I also thought about 20 minutes today about the state of my parents compost pile (I don't know if this is dedication to teh compost and/or extreme amounts of free time that plague most volunteers) I considered no short of 200 different ways to improve it, what the earthworms that my parents say are the size of boas look like how they're effecting the ph of the soil etc. etc. etc. how to work in more animal matter into the compost. . . This is an odd manifestation of home sickness if that's what it is. But over teh next two years, I've decided to dedicate some time to reading about productive/the best ways to compost and raising chickens. . . . don't judge

that's all for teh random thoughts of the day love and hugs