i think i know why people become teachers. before i give a test i always have a review session. for various reasons, the majority of the students rarely study for tests, so this way i know they atleast looked at their notes for 45 minutes. the session is usually a game, the brain competition (it sounds better in portuguese, aliteration), bar trivia ( Read more... )

i always feel a little frazzled in maputo. i think it's because the women with children carry them in baby carries and not capulanas ( Read more... )

eles robaram nossas bidoes. tentaram a robar nosso timbor tambem. mas tinha agua dentro. nao conseguiram. agora temos de carregar agua em bacias. BACIAS. com aquela grande boca aberta. e dificil. fiquei zangada. ainda estou um pouco zangada. nao devia dizer estava tao contenta com a nova bidao. nao ha palavras.

i have a few vegetables and herbs growing in cut up juice boxes on our veranda. nothing special, just something to pass the time. i came home from school one day and a box was missing. someone stole my basil. the bastards! it had just sprouted too. i made one of the students i was walking with come and stare at the gaping hole in the box line up. ( Read more... )

i can't wait to have a mop again.

i wanted to write a lot, but i got a lot of actual people writing to me emails and i want to respond to them, so i'm gonna give you the highlights of what i would have spend an hour dronning on about ( Read more... )

tomorrow is april. meaning that we have successfully made it through one fourth of 2007. to commemorate this momentous occasion, i will give you may favorite communications (via text messaging) from the frist fiscal quarter of the year. in reverse chronological order ( Read more... )

there was a massive explosion in maputo a few days ago. the entire souhtern half of the country was without energy for a while (we, in teacher row, did not notice any difference though, since we haven't had energy in 2 weeks). other than that i was not directly affected by the explosion, but a lot of people did die or get seriously injured. it's ( Read more... )

our neighbors have lots of chickens. 2 of them (tweedle dee and tweedle dumb) never leave each others side. they also never leave our yard. wedensday they ate tweedle dee. which i was very excited about. later that day as i was washing dishes i was throwing left over onion bits at tweedle dumb. kris told me to knock it off, she'd had a tramatic ( Read more... )

School started of new. We were dicked around a bit with the schedule, but I will not let the man get me down. Before I left for holidays they said I could teach physics, but then when we got back, the new pedagogical director said that I was already scheduled for 8 bio classes. Maybe later. We have 5 biology teachers. We have 2 physics teachers. ( Read more... )