Well, in addition, to being totally busy, I’m also sick.  I actually took a sick day today.  Seriously, I never do that.  The last time I took sick time was when the doctor dumped me in the hospital with pneunomia.  That’s not something I want to repeat.  I picked up a cold, probably from a student, but possibly a coworker.  It so wonderfully turned into a sinus infection last week.  That immediately traveled to my chest and I now have bronchitis.  Oh yeah.  The biggest reason I took off today was because I have no voice.  Like, can’t even whisper no voice.  My ears are also blocked up so I can’t hear much of anything.

So to kind of bring things up to date, we started our new term.  We have a whole batch of new kids and the classes of the returning students have been rearranged.  Again, I get the pleasure (ha!) of teaching the second floor Sha Sha program.  It’s not so bad anymore.  I’ve explained that the books they use for those kids are horrible.  So I read story books and sing songs.  The goal of the program isn’t to get the kids fluent in English.  It’s really just general exposure in letters, sounds, colors and basic vocabulary.  I have a 6 year old class and I have the 5 year old class.  I met the 5 year olds yesterday.  There’s about 15 of them.  One one of them flipped out when he saw me.  Poor little thing, he didn’t want any part of me.  I have a feeling my 3.5 year old self probably wouldn’t have wanted much of anything to do with the adult me either.  I don’t hold it against him.  He’s a little cutie actually.

I have a total of 4 kindergarten classes, plus the Sha Sha classes.  I have 6 classes in the afternoon (2 A classes, 2 B classes, 2 D classes) plus two speaking and writing classes (A1 and D3).

We finally are almost finished with a curriculum.  This involved quite a few hours of meetings, but I think it will benefit everyone.

Ivory is doing well.  When I took her to the vet last week, she had her first set of kitten shots.  She’s still pure white except for a dime sized patch on the top of her head that’s gray (salt-and-pepper really).  She was 1200 grams (2.65 pounds) at her vet visit and she’s about 3 months old.  She’s now eating Hill’s Science Diet for kittens.  She loves it.  She devours it.  In fact, she’s doing that right now.  She loves the little toys on the end of an elastic band.  She goes crazy.  She leaps and twirls.  Ivory still takes up the entire bed.  I’m not sure how a tiny kitten can do that.  But it seems where ever I want to sleep, she’s there.  She’s actually outgrowing the kitten looking stage.  She seems to be growing into her body.  It’s amazing the changes in a few short weeks.  I can’t even imagine life without her.  I still miss Sparkler and Jeepers (my last cat).  Nothing will ever replace them, but Ivory has her own place in my heart.

I’ll post my schedule and I’ll try to get the curriculum posted within the week.

Take care everyone!