Culture Time

I saw Tin Tin yesterday. My deep insight: I don’t like motion capture all that much.

Last Friday we put up Christmas decorations in our classrooms. I didn’t think it was going to be much fun, but then everyone got so busy at it and I ended up thoroughly enjoying the kids’ sense of holiday spirit.

My second class today got right to work on tearing down the hanging chains and snowflakes, and I was so pleased with their creative destruction that I made them all copy “The Lion and the Ant”, probably the most insipid and deadly story ever thought up for an ESL class, ten times. I knew THEY knew they had done something wrong because nobody complained. To hammer the point home, I had let the three girls in the class (who I knew did nothing) play JENGA the whole time.

This also afforded me to opportunity to try to plan out my week a little bit more.

I’m planning a holiday party for later on in the week, so I’m into Stage Two of my fancy apartment makeover. Step One, organizing all my junk, was dealt with last week. Now I’m going to scrub the floors and do all of that nonsense.

Some bad news: not only do I still not have hot water, but I’ve been trying for the first time since I’ve been here to cook inside my apartment, and I can’t figure that one out either. I have until Thursday to straighten this out.

Also, I pressed a wrong button on my washing machine and so I don’t know how that works anymore either. At least I still have my keys!

Good news: a maintenance man is coming tomorrow.

Bad news: he’s coming to paint flowers on my porch.

I don’t have any pictures from this weekend to share. It wasn’t all that great, anyway. I DO however, have some wonderful shots of people having all kinds of fun from two weeks ago. Enjoy these holiday snapshots:

A fierce moment with me and Robyn, a co-worker: