A few things:
Something happened to me today that is just too surreal not to share.
I went to school tonight to meet with class VG's parents. As I walked onto the school grounds a parent was walking beside me. The main building was locked (that was ok for me, I was going to building B) and she just went off about stupid people who work in schools. She then asked me what I did. I said I was a teacher. She looked taken aback and then asked me something else-I think about my age because I look way younger than the other teachers. I didn't really understand her so I said so. She then realized I was "that American teacher" and went off about how she loves me and America and how God has surely blessed me. Then, for some reason, she told me about her mother who she had just committed to a mental institution because she "went crazy due to my husband." I must have looked confused, because she said it again and then said her husband had hit her mother in the head very hard. I still must have looked lost because she then took both her hands, but her thumbs lightly on my temples and head butted me. Yes, she did. Then she told me exactly where she lives and asked me to come visit right then. I politely declined, saying I had to go meet with the parents of my students. She nodded, gave me the directions again and told me that I was going to stay with her all weekend. "It will be ok." She informed me. "My mother will stay at the home and I will make my husband sleep with the animals. We have pigs! 15 of them!" I thanked her, pointedly looked at my watch and said I had to go. She gave me a giant hug and two very wet kisses on each cheek (side note: she smelled like onions and B.O.) and let me go.
I went to school tonight to meet with class VG's parents. As I walked onto the school grounds a parent was walking beside me. The main building was locked (that was ok for me, I was going to building B) and she just went off about stupid people who work in schools. She then asked me what I did. I said I was a teacher. She looked taken aback and then asked me something else-I think about my age because I look way younger than the other teachers. I didn't really understand her so I said so. She then realized I was "that American teacher" and went off about how she loves me and America and how God has surely blessed me. Then, for some reason, she told me about her mother who she had just committed to a mental institution because she "went crazy due to my husband." I must have looked confused, because she said it again and then said her husband had hit her mother in the head very hard. I still must have looked lost because she then took both her hands, but her thumbs lightly on my temples and head butted me. Yes, she did. Then she told me exactly where she lives and asked me to come visit right then. I politely declined, saying I had to go meet with the parents of my students. She nodded, gave me the directions again and told me that I was going to stay with her all weekend. "It will be ok." She informed me. "My mother will stay at the home and I will make my husband sleep with the animals. We have pigs! 15 of them!" I thanked her, pointedly looked at my watch and said I had to go. She gave me a giant hug and two very wet kisses on each cheek (side note: she smelled like onions and B.O.) and let me go.