It's Friday! Wooohooo! The weeks have been FLYING by, I've been working for a month now and everything is starting to blend together. Guess I really am a full-time worker now? On Fridays, the kids are absolutely CRAZY so I can never get them to do much work. In lieu of anything productive, we watched the Thriller video... twice. I have one student who has all the moves down pat, extremely impressive. Maybe I will have them put together a Michael Jackson tribute dance for the talent show coming up?
I rode my bicycle to work in some intense rain this morning. Unfortunately, my hood didn't stay on too well, and I showed up with my hair and face dripping water. The Vietnamese staff had a good laugh at the foreign girl who couldn't figure out how to stay dry, but oh well.
All this past week large masses of dragonflies have been descending into the Singapore International playground. Apparently they come around this time of year, but I still haven't gotten used to the thousands of large flying bugs... BIG bugs. I tend to spend my recess duty looking up at the clouds of dragonflies above my head... although I should be making sure all the kids are safe of the playground, whoops. One of the most happenin' bars downtown is called Dragonfly, I think I finally get it.
So I've been in a pretty big rush to get home after school with errands to run, and I've found out that putting eggs in a bicycle basket and hitting large bumps at a relatively high speed does not insure the safe return of eggs. Granted, this should be common sense, but twice I arrived home with an egg or two (or three) completely exploded. Guess I'd be better off buying my eggs at the market and walking them home...
Speaking of eggs, I totally forgot this was Easter Weekend until a student drew me an Easter Bunny with a basket of eggs. This will be the first Easter of my life away from my family. I would like to say that I will definitely be missing my grandmother's famous jello eggs. I guess I could attempt to make my own, but I have a sneaking suspicion that it will not be successful. I can't even get a whole carton of eggs back to my house in one piece, let alone create my own. What I CAN do is some real nice deviled eggs, which I shall make and give to my Vietnamese friends (they have no idea what deviled eggs are) as an Easter present. I will be spending this Saturday making Vietnamese food, which is a far cry from my typical Easter weekend, but hey, at least I'm learning something new. I am half-tempted to put together an Easter egg hunt for my buddies over here (people looked at me like I was crazy when I tried to explain the concept of an Easter egg hunt) but this whole weekend is supposed to be thunderstorms... this could put a real 'damper' on an intended hunt. I do live across from a park, which would be a lovely spot for a hunt, but I doubt that I can even find plastic eggs to stuff with candy, AND all the children who hang at the park would likely steal them all. Looks like I will have to forgo any sort of Easter egg hunt this year. Alas.
I hope my family and friends back in the states eat enough candy to make up for the fact that I don't really have any. ;)