Tuesday, 2008.Sep.23

Roderick’s Vocabulary

I don’t know what TV shows Roderick was watching while I was at school every day.  I really don’t know what he was watching given that our TV only gets two channels, both with bad reception.  Anyway, this source of his vocabulary (both phrases and words) would be of great interest.  He says the most uncanny things.

Such as:

• What heck dat? (said while pointing up in the sky at an airplane or something)
• You mean! (said to mommy because they had to go to the store to get a movie.  yes, we don’t have every movie in our collection)
• You make me sick. (said when someone did something he didn’t like)
• You freak me out. (see you make me sick)
• Uh… yes or no or other answer (said before answering a question.  which actually comes from Bob the Builder.  not my ‘Afrikaans’ accent.  which is really only some slight pronunciational and intonational differences, not a boorjie accent.)
• Damn, damn, damn, damn, etc.  (said while walking in a circle, after watching My Fair Lady, in which there is a scene where a guy walks in a circle saying damn, damn, etc.)

Monday, 2008.Sep.22

Supposedly, Life Keeps Happening Even When I Don’t Post

School

• School got out on Friday (yay!).
• Since we’ll be in the US for the month of October, I will not be going back to school.

Mission Trip

• I’m going on a mission trip next weekend.
  
• It’ll be like VBS, or Holiday Club (which is what they call VBS here, but it is VBS, except the leaders at our church have more fun… host homes, late nights, dinner, etc).
  
• Except we’ll be in tent-ish sleeping situations.
  
• And it’s only four days: two days training the leaders from the area, two days doing the holiday club.
  
• It should be a lot of fun.

Going to the US

• We leave approximately two days after school starts.
• We will be in the US for approximately the whole month of October.
• We’ll be in NYC for the first two days after getting there.
• I still don’t have any flight or staying at people’s houses plans (because I’m lazy), but I’m coming.
• If I show up, you will find a place for me to sleep.
• You won’t be allowed to question your job.

Other

• I need a hair cut.
• I do a surfer thing wherein I flip my head to the side.
• If I don’t, my hair entirely covers my eyes.

Monday, 2008.Sep.01

Apparently, I’m a Severely Confused Person

I say this, simply because I seem to be lost quite often.

First, all day today, I found myself totally zoning out.

Like in IT.  The teacher is in Italy for two weeks, so she gave us all our work, and while she’s gone are supposed to do our work while a sub keeps the peace.  Now, the plan of course was for us to work.  The actual fact of it is that most of the kids don’t work.  Aidan (not sure about the spelling) was sitting next to me, and as I was working, would talk to me.  Most of the time, I am more than capable of multi tasking; I’m sure all of you have spoken with me while I take pictures.  Today, however, I kept just either screwing the programming up, or totally missing what Aidan said, and having to say what.

This wasn’t a sui generis event.  This kept.  Happening.  All.  Day.

Take when I went to Danielle’s house to watch Danielle and Amoret do the dance they’re doing for P’Articipate, Midstream’s cultural festival.  They would totally mess up or something, and would be lying on the floor incapacitated for their laughing, and I’d keep on staring at them, clueless. 

This, this blanking out, isn’t the only problem.  I also appear to have had our schedule regarding travel totally wrong.  We leave a day or two before the start of term four.  And we don’t actually have flights back to SA, so yeah.

My brain?  Not functioning.  I even think I had another example of the lack of cognisability of my brain, but I can’t think of it now.  Oh well.

I’ll see each of ya’ll with in the next three months, unless I’ve picked up readers I don’t even know.  In which case, I won’t see you…

Either way, Toodle-pip.

Monday, 2008.Sep.01

Shameless Advertising Needs It’s Own Post

Game Night on my birthday this Saturday.

You probably know the routine: 6-10pm, my house (address on RSVP), feel free to bring snacks, drinks, games, etcetera.

The week after (it’s the 13th, I’ll do the math for you) is a book club.  We’ll discuss The Giver by Lois Lowry.  Even if you can’t come, if you haven’t read that book, you desperately need to read it.  You are also welcome to bring drinks, games, etcetera, it’s also at my house (address on RSVP), 6-10pm.

I’m not giving you my email or cell number, cause that’s a big aperture for junk mail, so if you don’t have any way of getting to me, make a plan, as every South African teacher I’ve run into seems to love to say.