Week 1 at school update

A lot has happened in this last week which has been strange, overwhelming, exciting additions to the adventure. There's lots to say so this will probably sound random so I hope you make it through.


* Tuesday we had meetings at school and then we came home and took naps. This seemed like such a great idea, but then I was awake until 3:30 in the morning and that was not helpful! I ended up watching a Monk episode and went to sleep that night with stickynotes full of questions, things to do, and places to go.



* Wednesday mid-morning we met with the kindergarten principal and talked about what we had learned and which things we needed to know more about. Also during this meeting we got our class books which was overwhelming! And since that wasn't overwhelming enough she also told us that we needed to turn in our plan books by 2:30 on Thursday every week including this week. So I planned 9 subjects for five days in 24 hours :-)


* Wednesday evening we went grocery shopping and got the Soriana card so that we could earn points and get free things. I spent 700 pesos on groceries which seems like a ton, but I bought things like spices and condements and all the beginning things. I also bought goggles so that added up! To go shopping we walk to the store and then take a taxi close to our home (we never let them take us to the house) and carry our stuff inside. This picture was after we had unpacked some of the food.



* Thursday morning one of the girls forgot her keys so she borrowed mine and said she was going to bring them back. She never brought them to me so I walked home after school and was able to get in the gate, but could not get into the house so I went to the ice cream place and got an iced coffee because I had been out of water for 2.5 hours and was incredibly thirsty. Thankfully the girls came home 40 minutes later.


* Thursday when we all got home from school for the second time and were standing in the kitchen talking we lost power. We had no idea what had happened or why, but we were not the only ones. The whole block was without it for about 45 minutes.


* Also Thursday night the two male American teachers invited us to a fiesta Saturday night with all the Am. teachers, some of the Mexican teachers and some of their Mexican friends.