so...how's it going?

Hey, so it's been a while! So March has been a crazy month so far. To start things off I had another earthquake, this time with my kiddos in the room. It was a small one, but enough to shake up the day....and get my kids talking louder and faster than any one should be allowed to. Lets see...what else...oh yeah the next week a psycho mom told my principal to fire me, and then we went out and ate ice cream together and braided each other's hair....since she's my favorite person in the WORLD! And she is now sending all of tests back with the "real " grade on them (ya know, the one she thinks her daughter SHOULD have gotten) and expects me to be gracious for her expert advice. On the plus side, I started at a gym by my house, and found that I've shed at least one butt cheek since Christmas break! (I still have not been able to translate the workout plan the trainer game me...body parts and muscle names in Spanish is no bueno). I've been trying to find the magic stash of money I had misplaced so that I can find money to come home for the cabin and Christmas....but I fear that stash is MIA (blasted Leprachauns....) so I'm gonna have to pick one or the other.

The days herer are getting slightly less windy, dry for a while now, and a tad bit warmer. It's starting to look like Spring! My kids had never heard of St Patty's day, and by 3:00, I had 21 kids convinced that they DID see a leprachaun at lunch and that they should all chase him to the bottom of the ravine behind the school to steal his gold (I also inadvertatnly toold all of my kids they could go home and pinch their parents) :) I Hit the beach a few times since my last post. The latest was the best. We headed up to Tamarindo in the North Pacific. We had to cross a river to get to the good beach. Well on the way there we took a boat across (to the other side I could spit to). Well we decided we were going to swim across it for the way back, made it half way before it got too deep, and ended up swimming across this rushing river (that I later found out was probably filled with crocs!)

LIVE SAND DOLLARS??!?!? Are you kidding me...so cool! I was kind of excited!

Anyway, love and miss you all. Hope all is well! Hoping for some visitors soon....maybe come to me in July....that would solve all my problems! (do it, you know you want to :)