Had a normal first half – minus the fact that I had bread, peanut butter and mayonnaise on my breakfast plate this morning. (Definitely hope I don’t wake up to that again any time soon!) After lunch thoughm, is when my day took a little turn for the worse.
I walked into class to start science and was greeted by a “Fu*k you” on the board. Apparently Richie was mad at Nylemma because she bit him, so he decided to write F you Nylemma on the board. (Richie cleaned the whole school and school yard after school!) Then – when I went over to the 3rd and 4th graders, a huge pig walked into class, and that took a while to get him out. Then, about 10 minutes later, Fready comes walking in with a bird in his hand. He puts it on his desk, and it started pooping everywhere. I couldn’t help but laugh at this point. So, Michael runs over from the other class, picks up the bird, and literally drop kicks it! I couldn’t believe what I just saw. He saw that I was mad, and then preceded to run away. So I looked for Michael for a solid 10 minutes, while the whole school was outside and not in class anymore – and after a few nice words informed him that he would be joining Richie after school. So then, everything seems to be back to normal, and we are talking about 4-legged animals – I turn around to ask the class if they can think of any more – and the CHALKBOARD FALLS ON MY HEAD. The huge green chalkboard just falls forward, directly onto my head and then to the ground! Ha-ha I had to laugh at that one – through my massive headache though. At that point I just had the kids draw for the rest of the time – because I clearly wasn’t going to get anywhere with that class from you know where.
The rest of the day wasn’t as bad at all – which was nice. The 7th grade girls who love coming to my house and studying English came over like they normally do, but decided that we needed to clean my house today! I have so much stuff everywhere, all my teaching supplies and everything, and they wanted to make some space I think. (That was probably their real motivation!) I have been teaching them how to make bracelets from string too – which has been really fun. I feel like I am in summer camp again making bracelets in all my free time. But the girls love it. It is secretly fun being able to do kids things all the time again!
Oh, and I also ate my first whole fish for dinner last night! Head, eyes, teeth, tail, skin and everything! Fried it up and enjoyed it with my usual rice and catsup. I can’t really remember the last time I used an eating utensil either, which is awesome to me! My family loves it too! I just eat with a Marshallese spoon – aka my hands! Rice, fish, and everything else you can think of. It’s fun.
Melissa (who teaches in another village here on Arno) is here right now, and we are planning to go to the farm to help out tomorrow! I am really excited. They grow papaya, cucumbers, tomatoes, eggplant and lots of random veggies that you can’t get anywhere else on Arno. We are planning to go help every Saturday – which also means I will get to eat something that is actually good for you every Saturday too! Woo hoo. That will be a nice change from a bag of rice a day and flour for breakfast. Although, I will admit I am getting used to it and like most everything a lot. Breadfruit and tuna soup, and rice and fish soup are both delicious. I get really excited when my dad says that he is cooking soup. I have yet to taste a bad soup.
Well, have to go to church now and then probably do the jambos that Carrie started. Apparently every Friday and Saturday night we Jambo with all the kids and it sounds like lots of fun. I have an idea of what its like, seeing how we already jambo all the time ha-ha but I am sure this will be more kids and lots of fun!
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