Today Benny woke us up vomiting, I Finally Skyped with my Family and I am off for my last day at my job.  I haven't wrote much because I have been consumed.  Looking forward to getting back to my old routine with the kids.   

Little Monsters

Gosh, there are so many new things on the verge of happening in my life, I guess I have been very preoccupied and haven’t written for a couple of days.  Kids are good life is moving forward and still missing home, but I am seeing the light at the end of the tunnel.  This doesn’t just mean coming home but also, it is finally getting easier here for me in Brasil.  I am getting the language, I have a few good friends, and I am now able to get a bank acct.  This is actually quite inspiring and freeing. 

As far as the kids go, I am getting to enjoy the fact that Ben is getting quite funny, sarcastically just like his mom and Gabi is as smart as a whip and introducing me to a whole new world of relationships and communication.  They are my crazy stinky perfectly awesome super fun little monsters and I am having so much fun loving them. Ahhh…

It has been raining again for a few days.  That means our clothes are not drying, I can smell mold in the air and we can’t play outside… darn it!  The good news is that it is a bit colder so sleeping is still good. 

Check out this site!

Here is a great website, it is a non profit organization that helps to save street dogs in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. They just posted one of my blogs on their site and could always use a donation.   
http://janeiro-emmy.blogspot.com/2011/10/another-foreigners-take-on-life-in.html

You havent seen anything yet

So, I was supposed to be teaching a class yesterday and since it was Thursday, the day after and before the holiday & teachers day off….No one showed.  I was in class waiting for students and standing at the window.  My friend Josh was standing at the window chatting to me as I waited.  Just as he showed up I was having another moment with one of those June Bugs.  The hard beetles that fly.  So, I saw one of them by the window, on his back kicking his legs and thought oh, that is how they die.  They have trouble turning over when they are on their backs.  Kick, kick, kick…kick.  For a moment I felt sorry for the little bug and decided that I would just let nature take its course.  Cuz seriously…it is so big and hard and I just couldn’t bear the snapping squishing sound of murder.  It feels like more than just swatting a fly or a mosquito to me… it takes effort to kill these things!

So, I start talking to Josh and mentioned that the bug will probably start flying and that maybe I should have killed him and at that moment he was levating and at about the same level as my shoulder then my head and all of a sudden I screamed.  I tried to swing at him but when I saw that he was still there (at my eye level) I turned and ran towards the door knocking everything down in my way. Ok, it was everything that was basically in the room like the teachers podium and teachers stool.  It all went crashing down and everyone ran to the door to see what had happened.  When they looked in it was just me standing there like an idiot, paper & pens were all over the floor and the furniture toppled.  From the look on their faces they were not amused…ok, some were amused but definitely not my boss.  I wasn’t even embarrassed I was more thinking about how I will never survive the buggy summer in the school.  Because the only thing my friends did say is that “you haven’t seen anything yet”.