Snot-nosed Tykes and their Loving Parents

Yes in the literal meaning of the phrase….it’s cold season!!! And my lovely children, who have successfully deflected any means of sanitization, blowing their noses on something other than their hands, WASHING their hands, and covering their mouth, have graciously passed their delicious germs onto me, their loving teacher. We have a very close relationship you see…..

Hahaha but thankfully I’m doing well! I got a priesthood blessing last Sunday for my infection, and they threw in a nice piece for my cold :) That and my added amounts of sleep and eating oranges every day (AND THE SAVING REALIZATION THAT I HAD PACKED NASAL SPRAY), life has been a whole lot less miserable :)

**Side note super-fast!!! So things with my roommate have been going very well! If you didn’t hear,  the school rehired her, so I got to keep her :)She has come to church with me every time I’ve invited her, AND Last Saturday night, I needed to catch up on the afternoon session of conference that I had missed, she came in and asked if she could watch it with me! So of course I plugged in the ihome for a more in-your-face not-so-surround surround sound, and brought out the cookies! Hahaha. I invited her to come with me the next day to watch Sunday conference with the YSA’s (it may or may not have been the food in between sessions that lured her, but hey!), and she even brought a notebook and took notes!..you know…when she wasn’t dozing off ;) Hahaha. It’s been going very good though :)

ANYWAYS!(sorry, that was connected in my head, I promise). Back to what I was talking about :) So funny story about being sick:

I was walking down the hall, trailing my kids, when Phyllis, the western teacher coordinator, stopped me. She pointed to my water bottle and asked what it was for. I lifted it up and said, ‘oh, yeah, I’ve got a cold, so I’m drinking lots of water’. Apparently carrying around a water bottle is against the rules, and I quote: “this not allowed. If parents see you with water bottle they think, OH! Western teacher only think about themselves! Only take care of themselves and no one else, this not good. But I see you are clever! You use THIS kind of water bottle (you know, the recyclable ones you buy in a vending machine but twice the size) because parents not know who iss for. I think you are clever. Take care of health!” And she was on her way. This school cracks me up, let me tell ya.

 

ALSO the parents are a bit different too! At first, they seem like your typical parent who only has one child, so they see to their every needs, but when they come to pick them up, the school literally turns into a zoo....okay not literally, but I wanted emphasis....haha

 They put up a bar to block parents from coming in. Look at the picture. 1^st of all, notice the lovely Halloween Decorations I’ve put up J yes that is the Western Teacher’s handy work! 2^nd, that is the BEGINNING of what is to come. And that’s also 30 minutes before school gets out. They hoard by this rope until it’s lifted and then the RUN, I’m not kidding you. We actually have to lock our door to our classroom until it’s time for the kids to come home. At about 10 till, there are about 25 parents trying to press their noses on this tiny little window to see in, and then when it’s time to open the door, I turn the handle real quick and jump out of the way so I’m not stampeded. It’s great fun ;)