Oops!
I guess I'm out of practise with this journal! Sorry to all of you who like to read it, hopefully you're still out there!
Still stuck on the baby wagon. Wanting to make babies, trying to make babies, nothing to report yet, unless you want to hear about the great sex! Lucky me!
School is going great. No big stresses so far. I am trying to maintain the African laid back approach to everything and so far it's going well. Actually I have to say "better than well". I don't know if its coming back from Africa, or just that I had that "class from hell" last year, but I am loving my students this year! My full-year (advanced) art students are super. Very creative and very artistic! Last year they were all just in it because the previous teacher never made them actually do work and they wanted to slack off. This year I actually have real art-kids and they are so inspiring! I have a grade 8 and 9 class like this and they are on alternate days, so I always have one of them to really look forward to in a day. As for all the regular classes, they are super too! The grade 5's are a bit high strung, but it just means more patience, and waiting for them to shut up. All good.
I've been organizing our sailing trip for next spring and already have 5 kids with money in... that's impressive actually, I just handed out the applications on Tuesday. I'm excited about that. Not sure how I'm going to do it pregnant, but we'll cross that bridge when we come to it. I actually told the teacher who I took last year that I would like him to be my backup in case I can't make it (if I get pregnant and am sick all the time), and so now whenever he sees me he asks if I'm pregnant yet. I don't think he really gets it. I fully intend to go if I'm pregnant unless its a difficult pregnancy. And here's where I get all teenage-girl: my ASS-principal from last year, who is now our acting principal while our principal is on educational leave for 6 months, is coming on the trip. I am going to continue to call him my ASS-principal because I think it is an excellent descriptor.... boy would I be kicking myself if this journal ever got "found"! Anyways, I don't even get a choice in the matter and thought that if I have to take him then I better really like the other teacher I take. Problem solved, I found an excellent candidate. So there is this kid that I took on the trip last year who will be coming again and I told him he had to take his app-package into the ASS-p. He rolled his eyes. I told him that if he doesn't like the Ass, then maybe he should re-think the trip because he'll be coming with us. Well, he freaked. "Didn't you hear what happened when he came on our band trip?" "no." "He sucks the fun out of everything!!!!" Wow. Obviously it can't be all that bad since the kid still signed up the next day, but I did tell him I wouldn't put him on the Ass-crew. So now part of me is thinking I better be able to go on this trip because these kids are going to need me and the other part of me is thinking maybe it will be better if I can't go if I'm pregnant so I don't have to have the fun sucked out of my trip! Oy!
Ok, teenage girl has left the building.
There's a big UN meeting tomorrow and the make poverty history campaign is urging everyone to write letters to our country's leader and our MP's. So of course I did. I also proudly wear a white band to show my support. I got an email back from my MP, who is a member of the opposition party, basically telling me that our Prime Minister has not listened to the campaign and why I should vote for the opposition. Interesting way to put up your political platform and a little shallow if you ask me. So I wrote him back and told him that I understand his message, but I didn't think he understood mine, and that I am asking him to do his job as my MP and use his voice to represent my constituency. What an ass. My MP is the biggest joke around. He's the one who called Mandela a terrorist and a communist. Communist, yes, in his early years, but aren't we all in our early years... but terrorist? C'mon! The man was all about a peaceful revolution and equality! I am very proud to just realize that my "signature" on all of my emails has a quote from Nelson Mandela!
Ok I'm done for now.