MARCH BREAK!!!!!!!!

YAAAAAAAAAAYYY!!!!

I really think that we need this break as much as the kids do in order to keep being nice to them. For serious.

Thank god for march break!

This has been the most intense few days of my life. That house that blew up in Toronto yesterday morning belongs to the family of one of my students. And his mum was inside. His mum was there waiting for the gas man. Someone was on the phone with her minutes before her house exploded. And now there's this lovely lovely family left with no mum. And ( Read more... )

New york was soooooo awesome! Totally chaotic too, though. I seriously don't think I've ever been as afraid for my life in a taxi as in New york. how do they not have one million accidents each day? A total mystery. Scott went earlier than me for business and then I went on Friday morning. Amazing. We had the best time and I got alllll kinds of ( Read more... )

So now Kristen has backed out of hte canoe trip. At the last minute. And I understand that she might feel weird about going with two couples, but if everyone else hadn't been such a jerk and backed out then we wouldn't HAVE this problem. I'm never organizing anything ever again. And I'm certainly not compromising MY summer plans to organize ( Read more... )

So both mum and dad are now officially gone...and I have the house to myself!! Until at least monday when Benoit will arrive (his plans kept changing). So that's kind of crazy. It's always weird being in my house by myself - every other place I've lived I'm quite happy by myself, but here it always seems so large and also I can really feel the ( Read more... )

Man, this drama course I'm taking is sooooooo good!! I'm really enjoying myself. AND it's an awesome excuse to go see plays. Instead of having class in two weeks, we're going to Stratford! Yippee! And we got discount tickets to the Soulpepper Theatre show "The Real Thing". Very exciting! It's an excuse to go out for dinner with Peninah, her husband ( Read more... )

So, I had a pretty intense 'goodbye' with my students and the other teachers at Faywood. I couldn't sleep for the last few days of school cuz I was so anxious about it ( Read more... )

I really like the world cup. I think it's awesome seeing all hte flags from different countries that people drive around with. Particularly it's cool seeing which different neighbourhoods have a large population from the same countries. Although the Italians seem to be ubiquitous, I've only seen one mexican flag and two or three Argentenian. ( Read more... )

I have a jooooooobbbbb!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND am feeling pretty amazing about the fact that I have interviewed at 5 schools in the TDSB and hvae been offered jobs at 4 of the 5 schools. Very cool ( Read more... )

My children had an absolutely amazingly beautiful (note: by beautiful I mean horrible. WHO can make a recorder sound nice?!) recorder concert today with a visiting school. Who were all wearing matching outfits, could play "Oh Canada" and were silent when not expected to play. MY students, however, insisted on breaking out into "mary had a little ( Read more... )