September 26
Wednesday

During class today we played fire on the mountain, I figured I would make math exciting. It was really funny to see the kids get into groups of 3, 5, 20, ect. You know towards the end of the game you only have so many kids. Well we actually had 20 kids left and I put them in to groups of 10 then I called out 11. Choronei ran across the room at full speed and grabbed the littlest kid (Samnang) by the waist and started pulling like crazy. The girls banned together and resisted Choronei. Samnang was seriously hanging in the air laughing his head off. I should have stopped it, but Yeema and I just laughed so hard. No one got hurt in the end though.
The rest of the day seemed to go pretty well. I just feel that I’m yelling all the time, SIT DOWN, BE QUITE! If I have to keep this up all year my voice is going die. I don’t know if I have informed you guys about me making my kids something every week? Not anything to big, but just something for them to look forward to. Most of these kids don’t have much in their life to look forward to and if I can help that I will. What better than deserts on Friday after school. The only thing is that I don’t know if I can keep on doing this. It’s pretty costly. Cake and frosting costs me 5 some dollars; I know that may not seem like a lot, but think I only live on $180 a month. I don’t mind spending the money, but if I could get support from my friends and family it would be nice. Thanks. Here is the address just in case;
Liz Spearson
P.O Box 488
Phenom Penh.
Remember it takes about 2 or more weeks to get to me. Thanks again. OH! It would be really nice to get something in the mail letting me know you are alive. I do get tired of talking about myself all the time; not! Joking! LOVE YA! I miss you all so much!


September 27
Thursday

Today was good for the most part. I get so tired right after lunch. To the point where I just let my kids do what ever to an extent. I mean I do teach them the assignment, but once their done I will usually bluff my way through the rest of the class period, but after lunch lately I don’t care. The last period was seriously a joke. The kid did the work in less than 20 mins. What the heck was I going to do for the next 30 mins? I finally just gave into my laziness. Yeema was not feeling good either. The last 15 mins of class I just joked around with the kids. For the first time they asked how old I was. Sopheaktra guessed right on the first try. I was hesitant, but gave in. I figured their kids and 20 is old to them. MAN! I’m getting old. I’m not a kid anymore. I still see myself as a high schooler. Anyway, back on track; the kids. I just joked around saying so and so likes so and so. Surprisingly they understood me. It was so funny. Some of the girls pulled Chamnol over to my desk and asked me to say he like so and so; CUTE! Also today we played fire on the mountain with Katrina’s class (32). It was a big mistake, but I just didn’t know what else to do with math. I just figured it would be funnier with bigger numbers. So I ran over to Katrina’s room and asked if she wanted to play with us. I knew she would, but we both knew it was not a good idea. No matter how loud it got it was fun. I’m just glad Sharon didn’t come by. She would have not of approved.

September 28
Friday

Humpty Dumpy fell off the wall and broke. Liz fell down the stairs (again) bruising her bum. Come on that intro was a little different from my others, LOL! Anyway, I did fall down the stairs and really hurt myself this time. All day I couldn’t be comfortable. Even now I’m sitting on one butt cheek. I never have hurt my tail bone before and know it’s not cool. You can’t do little things like, put up objects from the floor without pain or sit. I just hope it doesn’t hurt this bad for to long. Church tomorrow doesn’t seem to fun considering its all sitting. The only time I’m actually comfortable is when I’m laying down, but who wants to lie all day.
Today was a good day, because it was a half day. Before I knew it I was handing the kids back to their parent’s. I gave the kids their cake the second to last period of the day. We were supposed to make a hat, but since I didn’t have anything planned for Art (last period) I figured we could do it then. It all worked out nicely. We also got payed today, $180. Not much, but something.
It’s my week to clean the apartment so I better get to that before Heather comes back from the market and freaks out. I love and miss you all very much!