It's Sunday the 10th. Happy birthday mom. It is cold today. The past few days it was pretty nice out but it's in the low 30's right now and the forecast is 30's and rain for the rest of the week. I've been told that our September and October are like January in the Seattle area. Not knowing a lot about January in the Seattle area, I guess I'll agree.
We've had a lot of people out sick the past couple of weeks. There is a stomach thing going around and people are experiencing what they call "wet poop". It's been kind of tough for my teaching because my classes have only 1-3 kids in each of them. So, if I'm missing 1 or 2, plans have to be changed. The first half of my day is spent pulling elementary kids out of their classrooms and working with them on reading, writing, math, speech and language. After lunch I teach three classes, high school math (one student, who has been in school less than 10 days throughout the first quarter of school) and a combination junior high/high school reading and writing (two students, one of whom is the same high schooler with the amazing attendance record). I like the mornings much more than the afternoons.
More name factoids:
We have twin 6th grade boys who have the same names, first, middle and last.
Some of the girls have the suffix Jr. after their names.
There is a high school boy whose name is "Steven 2". Not jr. not the 2nd, but 2. His father is Steven 1 and he is Steven 2.
My Yupik name (Raven) is pronounced something like this: Tulukaluch.
Our NYO team won its first competition this weekend. Go Shamans! We will host a tournament in the middle of November and I'll take pictures then.
The school water was on and off all week. If it stays off too long they have to cancel school. It was never off that long but it was still a pain. I wasn't able to wash all my clothes on Tuesday. And if your clothes sit in the water for any period of time they turn an amazing shade of brown, just like the water. It kind of looks like tea when it comes out of the faucets.
Heading back to Illinois this Wednesday for the wedding. I'll be gone from Wednesday afternoon until Monday afternoon. Out of the 5 days I'll be in airports or on planes for almost 48 hours. That's ok though, I'm still pumped.
Some of the things I'm looking forward to when I'm home: (besides seeing people)
Eating in a restaurant,
Walking barefoot
Getting a haircut
Paying less than $14 for a 12 pack of Diet Coke
Not using a honey bucket. (Although, I still haven't officially used mine. Yesterday I woke up at 5:00 in the morning, got dressed and ran to school.)
Don't really have anything else to add. I'm going to get back to work.
