Starting the weekend!

This is Kylie Whipps. She is the first kid in my class that I met in Palau. The first Sabbath here I helped her pass out forks during potluck, and I never knew she was in my class! She is so sweet and completely hyper. Her Grandparents own Surangles, the biggest store here in Palau, and her parents own Mason, a part of Surangles. She reminds me so much of my sister Janelle. Her desk looks like a bomb blew up and scattered her stuff everywhere, and even though I make her clean it at least 8 times a day, the next minute it's totally messy again. She is really loving and runs and jumps on me any time she sees me, no matter where we are. "Teacher, can you help me" is her favorite thing to say, but I don't mind.

Today was randomly different than most Fridays. Instead of teaching 2nd grade, I switched Jeanine and taught Kindergarten. It was her idea, because she wanted to have kids that actually listened to her. Great... It was quite fun actually. Though now I know I'll never be a Kindergarten teacher, it was still fun to get to play with the adorable kids. We started with Bible, and just drew rainbows! Then we did a page in reading where we learned that G is a the beginning of goat, gate, and green. For math we practiced counting 1,2,3,4, and 5 objects. Then it was snack time! After that came recess and my 2nd grade was out there. They all ran up to me and told me how much they missed me. It was cute! After recess we went back in and learned the letter T for phonics and drew pictures of more things. It was fun, even though they were not the best listeners, but at least I got some nice cereal for snack.

After school we went to Emimalei to eat as per our tradition, but I just got some coffee. Trying to save money for Manila and all that. We came back and cleaned our apartment. After we were finally all done, we were about to relax when we noticed that our apartment smelled HORRID. Remember our short stint with a puppy? [Note:Well, I don't remember what I wrote on here before, but Austin gave me the puppy I wanted and I was super happy. After having him (his name was Dozer) for about three days, he had peed everywhere, destroyed tons of stuff, and cried all night. He also started getting violent (Rottweiler) and it just was not as fun as we thought it would be. He even chewed my computer power cord. After the three days I decided that Austin could have him back] Anyway, when the puppy peed all over the place, I used an old shirt to clean it all up. Then I put it in the wash pile to be cleaned later on, and didn't think about it again. Apparently today, Jeanine used that shirt to mop the floor. Our apartment was covered in puppy pee! So then we had to go to the school, get a mop, and clean it all again. It was quite the inconvenience, but at least our apartment is clean!

After that we decided we really needed a reward, so we went down the massage place and got massages! It was such a nice Friday treat and felt so good! It was pretty cheap too. Compared to the $150 I paid for one this summer, it was the best deal ever. Then we bought some ingredients for potatoes, because the lady that took us to yoga invited us to a harvest party tomorrow night. That should be something else fun to do!

Jeanine and I were talking last night and we decided we need to do more things here. We made a list of things we need to do before we leave, like invite over our host families, go to all the churches in Palau, and visit Peliliu. Its fun to plan things that we want to do so they can actually happen.