It's Been Awhile...

Here are some highlights from the past couple of weeks. Lately, I've failed at blogging consistently!

• Here, oranges are not orange. They're more of yellow/green color. I ate one for breakfast this morning, and it was a bit disappointing. The watermelon, however, is delicious!
• I had an infestation of fleas. At one point, I counted 61 flea bites on my body. You will be happy to know, though, that once Betty washed my sheets, the problem was gone!
• Middle school students don't have a filter. They just say exactly what's on their minds. Sometimes this is good, and sometimes this is not so good. For example, in one day, 3 different boys asked me what happened to my face in reference to a pimple I had. However, last Friday, the first thing one of the girls said to me was, "Miss, you look beautiful today!" Now that is a great way to start the day, especially since my hair was pulled back (and a bit dirty)!
• An eighth grade girl invited me to come over to her house to meet her family and hang out. In the States, this would just be weird. Here, however, it's not so awkward! I accepted the invitation, and I'm going tomorrow!
• Unfortunately, the Spanish is slow coming! My Spanish teacher just keeps saying "poco a poco", which is supposed to be encouraging, but sometimes, it's more discouraging. I want to be able to speak conversational Spanish, but it's hard when I speak in Spanish all day at school and when I hang out with the other teachers. We have parent/teacher conferences in two weeks, which make me nervous, because about half of the parents don't speak English. Haha, it should be interesting!
• In the States, we have Mother's Day and Father's Day. Here in Guatemala, they also celebrate Kid's Day, which I thought was a joke at first! Kid's Day was on Saturday, but we celebrated at school on Monday. The parents brought pizza, tea, and cake for the kids. Also, each room mom made bags of candy for each kid. Needless to say, but the kids were so hyper on Monday! I let the kids eat their candy in my room as long as they gave me some!
• I kept telling myself that when I could run, I no longer had bronchitis. Well, two nights ago, I ran for thirty minutes without coughing! Yea!
• I eat pancakes almost every morning for breakfast, which is wonderful, because they are homemade with bananas! However, I have never eaten this many pancakes in my life!

Ok, that's all for now! More to come, but I'm at school right now, so I should be "using my time wisely!"