A few pictures at last

The first week has ended, and I feel like it was pretty successful! No one came to any significant harm, and I think my students even learned a few things.

The week culminated with our dedication ceremony for all the parents. All the classes presented very fun little projects. The 3^rd and 4^th grade class with Miss Carpenter presented poems they wrote about returning to school, the early years (3 and 4 year olds) did a cute little song, kindergarten recited a verse, 1 and 2 did a skit, and my class presented an artwork and prayed for the school in different languages. They all did an awesome job!

This week I am trying to figure out a more finalized schedule to settle in to, so we have a little more stability. Last week was a little strange with all the special things that go along with the first week of school.

As I promised, I have taken a few pictures, mostly of my house. Luckily I got these before our kitchen was painted on Saturday. They did a very thorough revamping of our cupboards: painting the inside and staining the outside. It looks beautiful in the kitchen, but unfortunately it also looks a bit like out kitchen threw up all over the table at the moment. That, and the smell is not quite conducive to maintaining brain cells. We’re still cooking on the stove, but to try and combat the aroma of the fumes I have been throwing cilantro and chili in everything. Becky cooked brownies this afternoon, and the fumes even managed to taint the smell of baking brownies. So we’ve had every possible orifice of the house wide open. Today was the first day that I’ve been here that I was cold!

My room, complete with jerry-rigged mosquito net

The kitchen

Dining room

Front room

The bulk of the decor in the house: a cut apart Monet calendar.

The tree collage my class made.

The wood shavings come from the construction of
the new classrooms, and the leaves have the
names of everyone at school on them.