bumper cars

I just realized that it has been a while since I have updated my blog. I have been pretty busy with school, language classes, and meetings. I just celebrated a birthday here- thanks again to all those who sent messages :-) It was a lot of fun. Many of my kids made me cards, brought me gifts, and brought in candy and cookies. The cards and gifts were so cute because I could tell that they did the best they could. My roomies made me potstickers and mashed potatoes for dinner, YUMMY! And my mom had sent a cake mix and icing for me so I made cupcakes. Then a group of us went out for what was supposed to be ice cream, but we were all so full that we just got drinks. They have this new slushy machine at the place we went to, a-maz-ing!!!! And tonight we are all going bowling, yes BOWLING, woohoo! It is in celebration of about 3 or 4 birthdays from this week, so it will be fun.

Last week my small group met a public park that has rides and such- almost like a county fair. It was nice we had a picnic because they actually had grassy fields! Then we were going to ride some rides (which was going to be interesting in itself). Well we finally made it to the bumper cars but there was no one running the ride. The at the ticket booth said that he had gone to pray. So as we are waiting a bunch of little boys come running through us and get on the cars. Then some older teen boys came and started pushing them around in the cars- the whole time we are watching, the ride is not on, and the guy has yet to come. The guy finally shows up and they rush off of the cars and form a line where he tells them to....so we end up at the end of the line! When we finally reached the beginning of the line the guy starts talking to me and my friend who is also a girl. He starts making this motion like turning a wheel and pressing a button. My friend and I looked at each other and realized he was trying to tell us how to drive!!! We were laughing while he is still demonstrating for us. I finally told him we knew how to drive, though I don't think he believed us. It was a lot of fun to play around on the bumper cars and ram into each other. When we finished and as we were leaving I asked the guy if we had driven alright and he smiled and said, "Ok, Ok...."

I also met a woman the other day at the sandwich stand next to the school I work at. She wants me to teach her English and hang out. I am very excited about this opportunity ;-)

Ok- I am tired and in need of a nap. I will write more stories later :-)