BIG changes!

Awkward moment: The kids explained to me that when it rains, and the rain gets into the volcanoes, they erupt with more lava. In my head, this is how my response went:
Julie: (Shaking children by the shoulders) "Are you completely out of your mind?! That doesn't even make ANY sense on ANY level!! Who taught you that? I want NAMES."
In reality, I pretended to look interested, asking them the reason behind that and WHY the rain caused the volcanoes to erupt with more lava. They had no idea, but they were convinced.

Big changes are happening in the upcoming weeks! Starting in July I will be:

-no longer working with one of my disrespectful counterparts

-teaching nutrition classes at the local 'gym'

-teaching 6 hours a week of advanced adult English classes (no more ABC's!)

I'm very excited about these changes. I will be busier, but I find that I'm happier overall when I have more work to do, and a more structured daily routine. I was raised a swimmer, I am a creature of structured habit!

Everything is going well as we finish this semester. Exams went surprisingly well, including in my youth group. The majority of the kids passed the exams in school, and all my youth group kids passed their exam. I am presenting them with their "diplomas" (thanks Aunt Agatha!) next week for completing my class. They're going to bring goodies to share, as well as some family members (hopefully not ALL their family members, that adds up quick here!). Also, mom and dad have mailed me the kids photos from when we had a party a month or so ago. I just hope they arrive in time to give them out this week!

We will break from youth group class for about 3 weeks, and break from Instituto class for about 1 week (I heard through the grapevine they make up a bunch of holidays and it's more like 2). I'm looking forward to visiting my training family again. My friend Jocelyn will also be reuniting with me and Carla in our training town. Should be a blast as always!

Although my pulley system was infiltrated a few days after implementation. I was not locked in my house once this week! The repairman never came to make the change to the door though. Another battle.

Dengue has strickened LPC. There have been 17 positive cases this season in LPC alone. The department of health keeps going around and fumigating with God-knows-what-kind-of-poison. They fogged my house with no warning. Then I had to wait at least 30 minutes to enter, and boil everything that I wished to ever have contact with again. Ok, thats an exaggeration, I really only boiled my toothbrush, retainers, and contact case.