The Page's Take Facebook

Everyone and their Grandma has facebook now. And that includes me. I spotted the following conversation amonst the older family members on my 15 year old cousin's wall. I miss them.

The bare necessities of life will come to you

So today, our Columbian computer fix it man, Pablo was offering some of of the food from his native land to everyone at work today.

"What is it?" One of the Spanish teachers asked.

"Just try some, it's delicious," Pablo said, shoving a handful down his throat.

I picked one up and chewed it down.

"Which insect was it?" I asked.

And Pablo told me...

And a very large one at that. 

It tasted like ...

toasted corn kernels (called "canchita" here in Peru).

Cheesy Pick up Line of the Week

For my elementary classes, I wrote the following above a painting on my white board:

What do you see first?

What shapes do you see?

During my high school art class, I turned around to see the following answers scribbled on the board as well:

What do you see first? Ms. Page

What shapes do you see? I cannot see anythings without you

Because anything was written with an additional "s" I soon sleuthed out the English-language-learning culprit.

Kindergoblins

All day today, I was looking forward to teaching Kindergarten. I was right to be excited. Highlights of the class period.

• One of the students, lets call him Edwin, laughing every time he deliberately disobeyed me and running around the room instead of going to time out (I am excited to see him learn).
• Feeling like the most rotton person in the world when I made one of them cry (I took her ruler away because she wasn't listening).
• Having to take a bathroom break for the last 5 minutes of class because when one has to go, they all have to go.
• Spending 10 minutes trying to get Edwin to unlock himself out of the bathroom stall. When another student in the hallway started acting up, I just gave up and waited for his teacher to arrive.
• Laughing with her as she tried to persuade him to get out:

Miss Daughterty: Edwin! Would you open the door please?

Edwin: NO! HAHAHAHAHAHA (a demonic laugh)

Miss Daughterty: This isn't funny Edwin! Open the door right now!

Edwin: (more demonic laughter)

While I watched the restless kindergarteners in the hallway, Miss Daughterty found a responsible looking 4rd grade boy to crawl under the stalls and unlock the door.

• Having a 5th grade student stop in the hallway to look at the kindergarteners and say, "oh! aren't they just the cutest things ever."

Second First Day of Teaching

I just finished creating seating charts for my elementary classes. A part of me relished the activity because I felt as though I was playing God.

The first day of this schoolyear was a lot more boring than last year's first day because I was much more relaxed. Here are a few highlights:

1. Watching mass confusion as we have two classes who are beginning middle school this year as we have just changed the system (both the sixth and seventh graders have never done the "switching classes" thing on their own before). All students were afraid and some looked like they were about to cry.

2. One of the new high school boys saying to me in complete seriousness, "I really just want to learn how to draw this year. I am not very good at it. Will you fix me?"

3. One of the new kindergarten girls telling me about her day after school, "I fell down and my box spilled all over the floor but guess what! My teacher didn't even yell at me!"

The view from my classroom window on an unusually sunny day.