Happy birthday Carol! Hope your Dubuque friends are treating you well today! xo
It's another day here in Casa! Mornings and evenings are really cooling off and it feels wonderful....great sleeping weather! I'm listening to the big waves crashing in this evening...well, in between the wild dogs barking and the muffler-less motorcycles!! :)
Well, another challenging day in my tech life....the blog photo gallery changed and I just got the last version figured out....so, I'll check with a friend and figure it out so I can add photos again....frustrating to say the least!! Whoever came up with "it's hard to teach an old dog new tricks" was so right on! :)
I had a really tough day yesterday. Today was a bit better. Seems we are all going through high and low days.....good thing we are hitting the lows on different days to be able to help each other out. The group of new hires is a wonderful and very supportive group!! I feel very blessed for each one of them!
We had a staff meeting yesterday and basically, the board has changed the "vision" of the school. Lots of concern and disappointed people. Please, pray for the school and it's vision of where it is headed in the next couple of years.
Cute saying from the day: (My class is suppose to stay on a "green" card all day. If they do something naughty they change the card to yellow as a warning. Second time is to orange and they miss some recess time. Third time is RED and they are in trouble with home and the office.) So...a little girl in my class that had to change her card to red says..."Miss.....red is like orange??" my response...."No it is not like orange!" I spend SO much time disciplining......the culture here is LOUD and VERY chatty....and the children are no different! It is VERY tiring by the end of each day!
I did get away last weekend again with my three girlfriends that are my age. We drove to a small town two hours south of here and spent Saturday night. On the way back I got my first speeding ticket. The HR staff had warned us about getting picked up and that there are corrupt police.... the advice they gave us helped a lot. The advice was:
1 - Don't speak anything but English. (If they think you know French they won't feel sorry for you.)
2 - Don't pay them ANYTHING....ask for a ticket. (They will try and get $$ and then pocket it.)
Sure enough, they told me I was speeding and fined me 400 dirhams ($50 US $$). When I asked for a ticket they said "No, pay us!". I said, "I will pay you later. Give me a ticket now. I have no money." We argued a bit, he asked what nationality we were and I told them American, he smiles and says, "Washington?" I said, "Yes!" He says, "Go slowly.." I say, "Okay!" and off we go. Yip....he was trying to pocket the $50 rather than give me a legit ticket that I could pay later...!!!!!
I'm busy working on grades for mid-term reports, so I'd better get back to them. More in a night or two! Hopefully, with photos! :)
Thank you all for your prayers this week! They have helped!
Love you, Jill
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