Sunday, 16 June 2013

DAAAAADDDDDDD!


BEACHBEACHBEACHBEACH
 
back-gammon'n'beers (n'toastiesn'savouries)
This was the last ‘regular’ weekend of school.  Although there are two weeks left of school, this is the last ‘children’ week.  So, to celebrate, 15 of us piled into a bus and went to the beach for the PE teachers (danielles) birthday/kitesurfing bonanza.

It was an awesome way to see everyone off in ‘non-teacher’ style.  There are a bunch of other things going on too but they are next week and I will post them later.

In the meantime, I go home on the 29th and arrive in Winnipeg at 4pm

Also,





HAPPY FATHERS DAY!

Cool things my dad has done:

*sang ‘I’m flying’ from ‘peter pan’ (the 1950’s mary martin version!) while pushing me on the swings

*made magic toast and read Robert muncsh mini-books before dropping me off at daycare

*introduced me to Indiana jones, star trek, star wars and alien. At the mature age of like, 6.  Don’t mess with this girl.

*let me flood the sandbox in the summer and make a giant mess in the house

*Let me build life-threateningly deep snow forts in the winter...And coming inside and making a giant mess in the house.

*Let me have massive Halloween bashes…and making a giant mess in the house.

*Helping me with cleaning UP the messes. (all kinds.  Snow. Mud. Sand. Beer cans. Broken Glass. Fake spider web.)

*Helping with cleaning up the emotional messes. (no skeletons hiding in the closet in this family.  We prefer to proudly display them in our front yard on Halloween.) J

*taught me how to survive a vampire attack (but of course, we all know that they will not attack you- for you have to INVITE them inside before they can come near you)

*Given me the passion to teach, and teach with creativity and humor (with doses of sarcasm thrown here and there). 

*I will never stop doing this: say a line from a movie or book and then smirk and say ‘whats that from??’ ‘what movie is that from??’

*I would not play piano without my dad. Or be able to swim.  Or skate.

*Given me the gift of art.  From painting to doodling, I have never had to rely on someone else to ‘draw this for me’

*Given me the ability to participate in conversations that go along the lines of ‘The book was better than the movie because…’ – my dad read us the book, and THEN took us to the movies. (Pagemaster..hobbit..)

*My dad managed to have best jack-o-lanterns on the street. HANDS DOWN.

So, dad if you are reading this… (and I do mean ‘if’ because I find it miraculous that he even knew what a ‘blog’ was)- Thank you for all your hard work- and I REALLY hope you take this day to relax and do whatever it is you love to do.
 
dad is in the left-hand corner :)
 

 

 

Wednesday, 5 June 2013

ally-1...cockroach....0


How apt. 3 on road 221 deals with an unexpected visit from a cockroach..

So...its about 11pm...just about to fall asleep....and there it was.  A big DISGUSTING roach scuttling across the bedroom floor.

I start screaming and wailing like a manic banshee.

Luther tries to act brave (brave face! I totally saw the fear in his eyes)

I am utterly useless and stand on the bed screaming and pointing at it.

Luther grabs a mop and starts beating it senselessly. 

I am still screaming and pointing.

Luther takes the battered corpse and throws it in the mop bucket

I am still screaming

Luther pours bleach in the bucket.

Me...you guessed it.

Luther manages to put it in the trash and takes it outside.

Me...beginning to calm down.

I went to sleep feeling creepy crawlies up my legs all night.

EWWWWWWWW.

 

so...apparently egypt gets quite hot in june...


COUNTDOWN TO COMPLETION OF TERM 4: 11 DAYS!

COUNTDOWN TO LAST DAY OF SCHOOL(IE: LAST TEACHER DAY): 16 DAYS!!

COUNTDOWN TO CANADA!:  18 DAYS!!

OMIGOD! Is that for real? the last 2-3 months literally blew past.

I guess with all the travelling and spring break(s) school has been so busy you don't really notice the time fly.

That being said, i'm tryna get my last minute stuff done.  Most of the teachers have kinda packed it in for the year.  We're all busy trying to get our marks in and the stress level is high.

So is the temperature  In the past few weeks, due to extreme temperatures, an excessive amount of power in Egypt is being over-used and causing major long annoying power outages. (like, 2-4 hours)  Everytime we get home from work its like a gamble whether or not we will be making dinner in the dark.  This makes it incredible difficult to shop, cook, eat, watch tv, mark, input report cards, call family, turn on AC.. etc....

At school,  the AC(ta'keef) has blown and its +47 out.  The school is an open courtyard so even our attempt at 'indoor recess and lunch' is taking in blistering desert heat. By 10:45am it had already hit 36.  Our VP comes in at 1 and says 'pack it in, we're closing the school. Its too hot.'

ITS. TOO. HOT- so we are going home. (I never thought i'd say THAT) :)

I came home, stripped down, blasted the AC and lay like a starfish on the bed.  I called mom, and told her its so damn hot that school was cancelled and thank god the power hasn't gone out in maadi because I would absolutely die. BOOM. power out.

I just kinda lay there and went crazy and dillusional in the heat.

this was taken at 5-6. it was cooling down by this time...
So i'm pretty sure I experienced my personal hell.  +47. at work. no AC. hundreds of cranky children crammed inside the school to 'protect' them from the heat.

On that note, lotsa cool things going on at school. Flash dance mobs, speech contests, field trips, graduations and summer fun stuff :)