Tuesday

I've been working at my school for the past two days getting ready for the kids.  They start tomorrow and I'm super excited to meet them all!  My CT is amazing!  She's full of ideas and overflowing with knowledge.  I am so glad to have been placed with her and expect that I'll be able to learn a great deal from her.

I had a scary moment today...I texted Layne from school telling him to meet me at a particular restaurant (that we had already been to) at 5:30.  He was to take some cash and the written directions to our house in Spanish just in case he got lost and needed to grab a taxi back to the house.  I arrived at the restaurant at 5:30 and met the other student teachers there.  I was a nervous wreck by about 6:30 when he hadn't shown up.  A previous student teacher had left a little "go-phone" type thing for me to use to make local calls so I had that in my hand, knowing that Layne had the number, but not sure how he would call it.  Eventually, he called me from our house...saying he waited at the restaurant for 30 minutes and then came back to the house.  I felt so bad...we were in the restaurant.  He just didn't know to look around at all the tables for us :-(

That being said, I'm going to buy him a local pre-paid phone tomorrow so that kind of thing doesn't happen again.  My landlady said they're about $35 at Wal-Mart so I'm just going to get it.  In the long run, I think it will keep me sane.  I was so worried about him...thinking he was lost in a country where he couldn't speak the language and [possibly] didn't know how to tell a taxi driver how to get back to our house.

In other news...Mark bought his ticket today to come visit us!!!  Yayyyy!  He'll be here from February 21 - March 3.  I can't wait to see him.  I'm so glad I have Layne with me...it's keeping me from getting too terribly homesick.  I know you guys are thinking...man, she hasn't even been gone a week yet and she's talking about being homesick?  But you have to understand, so much has changed in my life in just a few days that it feels like weeks since I've seen or talked to anyone familiar.  So, having Layne here to hug is keeping me happy :-)

Heading to bed...have to get some rest to handle all of those sweet 5th graders tomorrow!  Toodles!