...Your first fire of the morning starts on the first try. Especially when you have to get up early and leave in a hurry...oh yeah, AND it's literally below freezing in your ger.
...You walk into a class that you are dreading (because you are substituting-- solo teaching-- and they are pubescent 9th graders)and the students start to give high fives to each other and race to see who will sit in the front row. They are happy the 'amerik bagsh' (american teacher) will be teaching them today.
...Your students (who are primary teachers and did not know any English prior to my teaching them) find you in the hallway to tell you that English class will have to be canceled because of a mandatory primary teacher's meeting-- all in English. (It was very confusing, but they got the point across).
...You find a Hershey's Kiss in your purse!!!! (You can't buy Hershey's kisses here...One of the teachers brought them back from her trip to S. Korea and I forgot I had it).
...You realize it's Friday.
...Because it's Friday, you realize that it's Pizza night!!!
...You've been stuck inside the school all day and get a text message from a PCV friend asking about the current heat-wave. So when you step outside you can immediately feel that the temperature is above freezing! There is hope that I can survive this winter!
...Stepping outside you realize it's warm enough that you do not need to wear a hat! I almost felt like I was showing too much skin not having a hat and hood on.
And finally:
You know it is a good day when 11pm comes and goes without a neighbor coming in for an awkward conversation that late in the night (for the past 2 nights at 11pm on the dot our neighbor has come over to sit in silence and we exchange a couple sentences before they leave abruptly...probably mid sentence and we are left in utter confusion).
Today was a good day (yamar sahan odor way!). I felt needed and I felt useful. And now I feel tired. Only 8 more sleeps 'til Christmas! sahan amraray.
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I'm so glad you had a good day!
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