dao shi shi, shao shi shi

I am turning into my mother. I would just like to proclaim to the world that I am now realizing how similar we are, specifically because I am teaching. I call my kids sweetie like her. The kids from 6th grade come to talk to me about "life" and "love advice". It's just ridiculous how similar we are without me trying in the least. Fortunately, she is a fantastic teacher and amazing person, so I'm doing pretty well. Just thought I'd share with the world my current realizations.

On another topic, my class was in charge of chapel today which went really well. We sang Blind man, This Little Light of Mine, Jesus Lover of my Soul, and Jesus Love is Bubbling Over. At first we were supposed to do a skit. It was all about this class that gets an assignment. They are supposed to draw a picture of someone they hate and then pin it to the board. Then they got to throw darts at it and try to mess up the picture. In the end, the teacher takes away the pictures of the people the kids hate, and there is a picture of Jesus underneath. The skit was too short so I asked Mesikt, an elder in the church, to come speak for our chapel. Once he got up to speak, the first story that he told was about darts, and throwing them at people he hated. I was so surprised! He didn't know anything about what we were planning to do, but still delivered the same message. When I told him, tears came to his eyes as he noted its importance. There must have been someone there today that needed to hear the message about being nice and not hating others.

The rest of the day went on as normal, but after school we went to yoga for the first time! I assumed that it would be really easy, but it was a bit more difficult then I expected. It was fun to get out and do something active instead of just sitting around. As soon as we got back we got ready for our Micronesia:All the Islands of the Sea meetings. We went and sang and it was really fun!

So, I've decided to steal from one of my good friends Beth, and do a blog on every one of my kids. This is Mandy Kuo! She is the sweetest, most adorable 2nd grader on the face of the Earth. I love her with my whole heart! Every day she clings to me and hugs me and kisses me any asks for "piggy rides" or "huggy rides". She just loves me so much, and it's so fun to run around with her on my back. She is also extremely smart! She always gets the answers the first time and usually gets 100%. She sits quietly in class and gets along great with the other kids. She taught me "dao shi shi, shao shi shi" (except its written WAY differently)in Taiwanese, which means "big gorilla, small gorilla". RANDOM! Today one of my kids brought a fake spider left over from Halloween to school, and they tried to scare her with it. The first two times it didn't work, but the third time she scream and it scared her so much that she started to cry. It was so sad, but still extremely cute.