i'm almost home!!
hi guys,
just writing some thoughts down.... i'm almost home. Can you belize it? (belize seems to come out whenever i try to write b-e-l-i-e-v-e.) it must be a subconsious thing. i actually think it's cool :) so i'll keep it.
Guys,....i'm a jumble of feelings right now. I wish my mom was here. :) I'm trying to pack everything, meet with people in the community and other peace corp volunteers before i leave.
We got the yearbook TODAY (that I've been working on for the past month), BUT there a couple big mistakes in it. I couldn't deal with it when i first found out. I'm very emotional these last couple of days because i'm closing my service. I only have a week....nothing is supposed to go wrong. There's no time for mistakes! (okay...in my mind). But as it goes....things will happen as they will. So i must keep my cool...and just do what i have to do. So a teacher and I go to the printers to correct the problem. It'll be okay.
I also finished the categorizing of the books in our library. It looks pretty full...which makes me very happy! I still need to decorate it and put the rules up, maps, student art work.....but the main chunk is finished. I was sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo happy to hear that Ms Emily Martinez (Infant 1 teacher....who loves to tease me about my tight pants and how "fat" I am), said that the yearbook project was a great initiative.....AND that she wants to continue it every year for now on!! (Praise God!) Then she also said that she wants me to put in a word to our principal (Mrs. Rita Enriquez) that she wants to be IN CHARGE of the library!!! (double Praise God!!). I don't know how this all ended up like this...I guess it's must be God's plan..because I (as other peace corps or teachers or service people might feel) don't know how my time and work here has helped others or if it will be continued ("sustainability" is a key word in Peace Corp) or if it even matters.
So, today, I find out that the projects that I've been working on without a counterpart (supposedly needed for sustainability) WILL GO ON!! Yaye!!!!!!!!!!!! yaye!!!!!!!! yaye!!!!!!
you guys probably don't understand...but finishing my projects and having the teachers back it...and even want to continue it....is EVERYTHING to my being here! PRAISE GOD!!
I think the school will be doing a going away presentation for me tomorrow. Well, they said that they are doing something for Mrs. Enriquez...but I already know that her going away assembly will be the day that I fly out. I hear the song "2-step" blasting in one of the class room.....and I saw a couple of the boys doing a dance routine. I hope i'm not too ego-centric to hope that they are going to do a dance routine tomorrow. oh...how i wish i had a video camera for tomorrow!!!! i'm really gonna miss the students and the teachers and just the way things work (even if it frustrates me most of the time).
I know i have to adjust when i get back to California....but man, it's gonna be a shock. \
By the way, another wonderful thing....I SOLD all my major things in my house already. I just need to collect and they have to pick up the stuff. Another praise God! So you see that's why I've been keeping my cool for the most part....everything is falling into place.....through God.
Well, i better get going...I'm going to send off some peace corp reports...and head home to fix my bike tire....and then have dinner with the peace corps in Belmopan! :)
just writing some thoughts down.... i'm almost home. Can you belize it? (belize seems to come out whenever i try to write b-e-l-i-e-v-e.) it must be a subconsious thing. i actually think it's cool :) so i'll keep it.
Guys,....i'm a jumble of feelings right now. I wish my mom was here. :) I'm trying to pack everything, meet with people in the community and other peace corp volunteers before i leave.
We got the yearbook TODAY (that I've been working on for the past month), BUT there a couple big mistakes in it. I couldn't deal with it when i first found out. I'm very emotional these last couple of days because i'm closing my service. I only have a week....nothing is supposed to go wrong. There's no time for mistakes! (okay...in my mind). But as it goes....things will happen as they will. So i must keep my cool...and just do what i have to do. So a teacher and I go to the printers to correct the problem. It'll be okay.
I also finished the categorizing of the books in our library. It looks pretty full...which makes me very happy! I still need to decorate it and put the rules up, maps, student art work.....but the main chunk is finished. I was sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo happy to hear that Ms Emily Martinez (Infant 1 teacher....who loves to tease me about my tight pants and how "fat" I am), said that the yearbook project was a great initiative.....AND that she wants to continue it every year for now on!! (Praise God!) Then she also said that she wants me to put in a word to our principal (Mrs. Rita Enriquez) that she wants to be IN CHARGE of the library!!! (double Praise God!!). I don't know how this all ended up like this...I guess it's must be God's plan..because I (as other peace corps or teachers or service people might feel) don't know how my time and work here has helped others or if it will be continued ("sustainability" is a key word in Peace Corp) or if it even matters.
So, today, I find out that the projects that I've been working on without a counterpart (supposedly needed for sustainability) WILL GO ON!! Yaye!!!!!!!!!!!! yaye!!!!!!!! yaye!!!!!!
you guys probably don't understand...but finishing my projects and having the teachers back it...and even want to continue it....is EVERYTHING to my being here! PRAISE GOD!!
I think the school will be doing a going away presentation for me tomorrow. Well, they said that they are doing something for Mrs. Enriquez...but I already know that her going away assembly will be the day that I fly out. I hear the song "2-step" blasting in one of the class room.....and I saw a couple of the boys doing a dance routine. I hope i'm not too ego-centric to hope that they are going to do a dance routine tomorrow. oh...how i wish i had a video camera for tomorrow!!!! i'm really gonna miss the students and the teachers and just the way things work (even if it frustrates me most of the time).
I know i have to adjust when i get back to California....but man, it's gonna be a shock. \
By the way, another wonderful thing....I SOLD all my major things in my house already. I just need to collect and they have to pick up the stuff. Another praise God! So you see that's why I've been keeping my cool for the most part....everything is falling into place.....through God.
Well, i better get going...I'm going to send off some peace corp reports...and head home to fix my bike tire....and then have dinner with the peace corps in Belmopan! :)