why is it

that noone leaves any comments for me?
i'd like some comments people! nice ones, preferably.
aaaaaanyway

yesterday, osheayanna became TWO MONTHS OLD! wow. that's big news =)






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i'm tired and out of shape. that's old news.
i think perhaps i'm pms-ing or something. this week i've been incredibly bored with the routine of life. going to work, coming home, hanging out with the work peoples, cooking once in a while, cleaning, bored, BORED, B O R E D.

part of it is the fact that i have a quite capable student teacher who teaches 2 of my 3 periods. so after 905, the only "work" i have to do is policing. i dont even really do that because she has to develop her own classroom management techniques. so essentially, i'm in the room but now i have to FIND work to do. and i dont have to plan in the evenings because geography is sorted out and she's doing history. booooring!

now that i'm "not" the teacher person, i'm getting to have all sorts of random conversations with the kids. and they also make a point of telling me all manner of things. now i know why nicole (my last host teacher) was having such a great time while i was on my block. she just had to interject for the parts she liked or crack jokes when she was bored.

the good thing is that i got to mark a whole pile of essays while listening to my own music to block them out. if i wasn't plugged in, i would hear everything and be forced to police and answer questions. ipods are your own little isolation chamber. plus, they recognize that because they use music to block things out too.
now all i need is a screen to block out guilty faces turned to me expecting that i've heard/seen and will be annoyed, and to block out the chair rockers in danger of falling and buss'ing open their heads (despite the fact that they know my rules still apply).

she had a game that she made up for them today. it was good times.
MMMs include:
a student instructed to hum the canadian anthem humming something that sounds more like oh christmas tree, yet EVERY student yelled out the right answer.

only one person could figure out how to draw suburbia... after they had learned about it the day before.

noone could spell sovereignty. in fact the spelling got worse as it went from one team to the next.

EVERYone knows the songs from grease. "of COURSE miss!"

and,

"TEK YUH TIME, NAH BOY!"

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in other news, i swam around the pool today without touching bottom. i didn't hit the wall because i had my eyes open underwater. i only started to falter when i started to screw up my breating/floating and had to fight to stay up because i was hardly able to breathe at all. it took a while to catch my breath. that tells me that i am HELLA out of shape. so so sad. and josh is a good swimming teacher.
i need to do that again though, because even though that was a personal victory, i failed to swim without stopping for a minute. i only made it to 50 seconds.
yeah, i know that's a piddly amount of time, but that's a big deal for someone like me who could only flail around 4 weeks ago.

afterwards, we joined the posse at trotters. that was tres surreal. every single expat and/or white trini on the island was there, shmoozing it up, yelling to their neighbours over the adult contemporary music pumped through the place. i felt tired from swimming and awkward in the weird vibe of the place. had some mini quesadillas. ym. not quite yum. just ym.
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tomorrow is the east side mission. hopefully i'll find some nice work gear or tops to wear out so that i wont look as dull as i did at sasha's party last week.

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lets hope next week i wont be so bitterly bored. oh that's right. there's a holiday on wednesday so i'll have to find something to do, and then i get to start teaching again on thursday cus the student teacher will be gone.

i shouldnt say bitter though. i have almost nothing to be bitter about! i'm amazed that i'm this bored and lethargic too. i could sleep all day if given the chance. quite happily i might add.

i've been really working on thinking about things instead of thinking about how bored i am. reading thich nhat hanh and some devotional stuff too. plus listening to chill music.
meh...
now i'm boring myself with my writing!