Palm Trees and Mountains

I am back and doing my best to enjoy and readjust to life here.

Biggest news - Nola nearly doubled in size since we were gone. So she's now not so small and cuddly...and she's definitely found her lungs. :(

Coming back was a fairly uneventful aside from huge turbulence over the mountains in the DR. Natalie and I made it through security with all our items and began our journey back to the warmth that had been calling us since we left.

Monday I spent about 4 hours at school getting things set up and re-arranged my room since I had a student leave over break.

Tuesday officially began school again despite the looks of our straggled numbers at morning annoucements. The 4th grade class had 5/12 at flag time and gained a 6th part way through the morning.

Anna's brother is here this week too so I haven't had much company to spend time with which made for a fairly lonely week, but it was ok. Because now I'm making up for the lack of human interaction early on with a people filled weekend.

This next week is the 4th-12th grade finals week so they only have half days. I will be spending my week teaching 8-3:15 as usual; with a few late nights thrown in for report card filing. yippe.

Then on Friday we have staff training so no students and semi-three day weekend! :)


I'm so thankful that I was able to come back this semester and teach. But when the time comes to say goodbye I don't know if I'll be able to return to suburbia. I was reminded how much I dislike the uniformity of middle-america. Life here is so vibrant and colorful with glorious flowers and mountains all around.