Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Taste of Taj

Oh man, today was good! Typical mornings, typical afternoon. I got new stickers in the mail from my parents and my kids went wild! Stickers for my kids=peanut butter and pickles for pregnant womem-or something like that. We had extra time in the morning, so my kids formed at mambo line and danced around the classroom. The reason we had extra time? Today was picture day! My kids all got sweaty from doing the mambo and then we went into the library to take pictures. It was quite the ordeal. They were good all day, so for the last class of the day I let them play red light green light. It was so fun that even kids from other classes joined in-with permission and without. As I was giving a lecture today, Kylie goes "You are the best teacher in the whole world. Really, the best". It made my day! They are so sweet and loving no matter what kind of day they've had. Another thing that happened during school: A lady from Southern University came to visit all of our classes. I guess Southern got a new SM coordinator and she wanted to meet the SM's on the islands. Palau was her first stop, and since she lived here for 4 years (her husband was the pastor here) she knows a lot more about Palau then we do. She was very nice and offered to take all the SM's out to eat at 5 pm. I know the time seems irrevelant, but no, there is a point, I promise. Anyway, so we're waiting in our apartment, singing, hanging out, not eating anything. Then Jesse comes by and says that dinner is moved to 7:15 because of a basketball game. So when 7:15 finally comes around, (we baked bread in the mean time)[Disclaimer: If you know me AT ALL, you know I cooked nothing and was only there for moral support) we headed down to the public gym to pick up Ben and Chris who were playing on the SDA team against PPR-a resort here in Palau. Unfortunately, they were still in their 3rd quarter, but on the plus side we got to see them play. It is so funny because Ben is not only the whitest person on the court, but also the tallest. People literally bounced off him multiple times. It was quite hilarious. SDA won 65 to 40 which was exciting for our guys. When we finally headed to eat it was 7:45, but we were happy because we went to the Taj, a fantastic Indian place that us girls had never been to before. The atmosphere in the Taj is great, really exotic and really expensive. We ordered tons of different things to put in the middle of the table for us all to try like lamb and cashew curry with lamb, garlic nahn, red curry with chicken, vegetables, flat bread, cheese nahn, green curry with tofu, rice, and all the mango juice we could drink. It was so amazing that I can't even describe, hands down the best meal I've had in Palau. It was such a fun night getting to hang out with everyone and getting to talk to Julie, the Southern rep. They treated us so good at the resteraunt that I didn't want to leave! Sadly for him, Jesse is a part of the board and even though it started at 5, board meeting still wasn't over when we finished at 9:15. The sad part about it is that the reason that board meeting took so long was because they were making a new rule- no boys in the girls apartment, and vice versa, ever. So now if we want to hang out we have to be in the school library or somewhere else like that. It's not the biggest deal ever but it is too bad because we were having so much fun! Oh well, on the plus side, my dad is coming a week from tomorrow!

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