A day in the life..: March 2012

Thursday, March 29, 2012

Preschool Portions

One of the funniest things about my job is that I am slowing learning Spanish. My vocabulary is extremely limited, and I definitely don't know how to spell anything. Most of what I learn is from two and a half year olds, so it also is not very grammatically correct. I also might not be pronouncing it right because children do not speak well. Yesterday I learned a very interesting word, or phrase I should say, for one such student. He was building a tower of Mega Blocks and dropped a couple on the ground shouting, "Puta madre!" One of the Spanish speaking teachers looks at him with a serious look on her face and said something very stern in Spanish. I'm used to the children shouting, "Su cayó!" meaning, "It fell!" I asked the teacher what he had said. Turns out a little two and half year old said, "Mother F$#%er!" The teacher asked him why he say that, he innocently answered, "Two blocks fell," with a cute little child look on his face.
Now, luckily, if I jam my finger in Mexico or South America I can proclaim my pain in their native tongue.

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Check It

I know, I seem to have fallen behind on my adventure posting. I don't have too many, but here's what has happened in the past little bit.

February 17: A little boy in my class, Dylan, has had a crush on me since about September. On Valentine's Day I was teaching in the nursery, so I didn't see him. He got all the teachers in the preschool a fake rose. The next Friday I taught in the preschool and he had told his mom he wanted to give a rose to "the other teacher." She went out an bought another rose so he could give one to me. He had told me that he had a rose for me before his mom brought it in to him and when he came to hand it to me he wouldn't look me in the eye and then ran away after I had it. There is no bigger ego boost than getting a flower from a little three year old.

February 29: LEAP DAY!!

Now, these pictures are awful. They were taken with my phone and, as you can clearly see, by Hannah. You can't get the whole grandeur of the event, the pictures don't give our spectacle justice.

Here's what we did:

1. Put on firefighter helmets I so conveniently had in my car and went to Utah Lake.

2. Stripped down to just our swimsuits and BOOKED IT into the lake. ICE, ICE BABY! I'll admit, when my V hit the water my bladder just let go, it was so cold. We didn't go all the way in because the water was nastbot! We did NOT want that all over our arms.