Life After Winter

There is really time after Winter!! The sun and summer are finally here and are showing themselves in full force. Last week I spent the shift outside at the bumper boats...with sunscreen applied and I still ended the day with a lovely V on my neck and some sweet lines on my feet from my shoes.

Got Sun?

Apparently there was sun out today...and as I'm discovering my body just loves to suck that sun in. Walking to and from work plus going to the park with the girls gave my body ample opportunity to suck it in. Guess it's time to dig out that sunscreen, I don't want this happening again!

Walking= More Fun

The sun and heat are coming!! Friday in my middle class I took the kids on a walk, they were supposed to be listening to the different sounds and seeing the different, colors, shapes, and things in general that they saw. It went really well except it was hot and the kids didn't like that but they said that they had fun.

2 adventures came from our walk...

I was out with the 3 year olds, Teacher Stephanie was at the back and I was at the front. We were getting ready to head back to the school and I started walking forward, I had walked about 10 yards when I looked back, I had about 4 kids with me but the rest was still back with Teacher Stephanie. They were all looking intently over the edge of the road, down onto a garden- I wasn't sure what was going on so I just sat watching them when all of a sudden I saw to streams of water arching through the sky and noticed that two of the boys had there pants down around their ankles and were peeing into the garden. AHHH!!! I have since learned that it seems to be a very common practice in Asia, people (yes even adults sometimes) will just pull down their pants and go wherever they are, I am grateful that I have yet to see an adult do this and hope that I never have to.

Friday evening I scratched my arm for some reason and looked down at my shoulder, I noticed that there was a little bit of color difference, I figured at first that it must have been from when I got really bad sunburnt last summer, but then I looked more closely and realized that nope I had got sunburnt, thankfully not very much but enough so that there was some color difference. I now know that I can't go outside without wearing suntan lotion (and thankfully Andrea brought some with her!)

The Sock That Is No More

So yesterday morning Andrea woke up with a really really sore neck and it continued to progressively get worse throughout the day, I suggested that she make a rice sock to help loosen the muscles so that maybe she could turn her neck. When we went to the store we bought some long socks and came home and filled it with rice (from the freezer :D). Andrea used it once and it really seemed to help a little so she put it back in the microwave to heat it up again.
We were watching our movie when I smelled something, I looked up to see the kitchen filled with smoke, I ran across the kitchen and pulled open the microwave and black smoke came rushing out at me. I couldn't breathe because it was so bad. We quickly grabbed all the fans and put them on, hoping to clear out the air. We're not sure what happened, but I like to describe what it looked like when we opened the microwave as "the rice pooped out of the sock, like a black charcoal ball"