Well- today is the first day of spring and how appropriate that it is also the first day of my spring break. Am I getting too old to be as excited, or even more so, than my kids about this?
Because it is spring break I have a lot of free time to relax and catch up on my hands. There fore I have decided to write about a few more funny stories that have happened over the past few weeks :-)
About a week or two ago there were several of us that needed to have an official photo taken. So, I went with 2 other girls to the "Kodak" store. We walk in and go to the front desk- apparently this place takes photos and prints them out like a normal place you take film to. They took us back to the sitting room where we would have our pictures taken and left us there. I was so excited when I found a full length mirror- these are rare and extremely hard to come by here, in fact a lot of my friends don't even own mirrors. We began to look around the room and the props were hilarious. The guy finally comes back into the room with a digital camera and I was forced to be first. He took my picture and then the other girls had their's taken. While I was waiting for them I look over in the corner to see one of those Sony home printing stations. It was all I could do not to bust out laughing. After having our pictures taken the guy left us again. We waited...and waited...finally he comes back in saying he needs to know what size pictures we want (not in English of course so a lot of gesturing was involved). They escorted us over to the the room with the the computers and developers/printers. Since they are on the metric system here it took quite some time to figure out the size that we actually wanted (somewhere around the equivalent of a 3 X 5). Then- and this is the funny part- we look over and there is the guy at the computer with our pictures pulled up in photoshop. He took each one and airbrushed us, straightened our teeth, fixed our eyebrows, etc. He did it all!!! And, thinking he'd be funny, he starts making my friends picture all distorted looking. I couldn't take it any longer, I was laughing so hard I was crying! Once the pictures were fixed they were printed- though the men were shocked that we only wanted one each. While they were printing we went to wait in the lobby area. A few minutes later the photos were done and one of the guys is showing me that he had taken a picture of me with his cell phone- saying, not in English, good, right, right? A little creepy so I just walked away. Just another interesting experience here :-)
There is this one student at the school who has a developmental disorder. He is a teenager with the mind of a 5 year old. He can be very sweet sometimes and other times, well...act like a 5 year old :-) I've had a lot of funny times with him. He's a pretty big boy and one day I walked outside for dimissal with some of my children and he was "hiding" behind a shutter with his sunglasses on and finger over his mouth (ya know the quiet sign). So, some kids and I played along. It was hilarious and cute all at the same time- he was so excited to jump out and show us where he had been "hiding". He also likes to copy me. I am usually outside to cover recess and lunches for a couple of classes and he is out there for part of the time. On the days he's talking to me, he'll come stand by me and mimick my actions, laughing the whole time. Yesterday he was doing this but he was also very excited about a birthday party they were having in the class he spends some time in. He was jumping up and down so much that his pants kept falling down! He kept asking me to help him, which for his real age and the culture here is very inappropriate, so I had to get his aid to help him. He keeps me laughing though!
I was in the kindergarten class this past week helping out. I commented on one of the little girls hair (it had been braided) and one of the white kids looks in awe at it and says, "Yeah, I don't know how her mom does it!" It was so cute and funny because he was being completely serious.
That's all for now- off to enjoy my nice, relaxing spring break ;-)
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