Most of my week consists of your average daily activities: Wake up. Go to work. Ask students to please "Sit down", "Use nicer words", and "Put your cell phone away." Buy food. Prepare food. Eat food. Wash dishes. Hang with friends. Pay bills. Watch a movie. Read a book. Click the little blue Facebook thumb. Walk with dogs. Pick-up dog doo-doo. Cuddle with dogs. Do laundry. Sleep. However, sometimes there are some shining and exciting moments such as: Camping in the mountains. Going to the ocean for a day. Getting up close and personal with penguins. Surprise mail from the states hanging in my tree or laying in a corner half-eaten by my puppy. Getting the 'family rate' on wine and a private tasting even after showing up after-hours. Friends and family coming to visit. Picking up hitchhikers. (Wait...Mom, have I told you about that yet?) Well, this blog entry, unfortunately for you, is neither shining nor exciting...but it does give you a few little tidbits to answer the classic question "What's going on in your life?" #disappointedbutwarmChimney sweeps do NOT perform choreographed routines on neighborhood rooftops. I shouldn't be too surprised though...it isn't the first time a musical deceived me about the realities of life. Despite the obvious disappointment, he did a wonderful job and now I am enjoying a nice toasty house on chilly fall evenings. Speaking of fall...here is what it is looking like near Linares these days. #icantreadthatWhat exciting things have I done in my free time recently? Practice my Chilean penmanship. While the Spanish and English alphabets are nearly the same, neither good ol' Zaner-Bloser nor D' Nealian cursive do much good when working with young students... At fist I assumed I could avoid any misunderstanding by just printing my letters...but my third graders quickly helped me realize that was a very wrong assumption to have made! One can only hear "Miss, what letter is that?" a few hundred times before going crazy. After the second class of the year, one of the third grade teachers suggested that I write in cursive because here in Chile they start learning cursive right away in first grade. Ok, no problem! Then, about two days later, I realized that my cursive was also causing problems...yeah, one of those "Michelle Tanner Moments." Another teacher gave me a copy of the handwriting chart and I started practicing! Look especially at the upper case "i", because that's how I used to make my upper case"t"...talk about confusing. The capital "g" and "t" have been the hardest for me to get used to...but hopefully it will soon be second nature! At first I found the lower case "p" a bit annoying, but it certainly has grown on me and now I am rather fond of not closing it off. Once while I was practicing another teacher saw me and gave me an extra copy he had of a handwriting book. #awesome #itsthelittlethings #iwantallofthebooks #patienceisavirtueAnd last, but certainly not least...this is what the taxi line looks like when you go grocery shopping late on Saturday morning...
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