Pool

January 11
Friday

Today Katrina and I took Aliza and Mara out for the afternoon. Aliza is one of Katrina’s first graders. Mara and Aliza are the youngest in the dorm, so you can image how much they value each other. We left school really fast, something I never do, and headed back to the house to change and get money for lunch. We decided to take them to our traditional place, Morning Café and then off to the pool for a little dip. The dip ended up being a couple of hours. Mara and Aliza loved it, I’m sure we will be doing this some other time. It was ok though because we didn’t have anything else on the agenda for the day. To tell you the truth, I feel so much relaxed without Heather their. Usually I would be freaking out because Heather wants the house cleaned before Sabbath and so much more, but not anymore. Not that I intentionally try not to have things done before Sabbath, but life throws things your way. Although we did want to go to Russian market to look for a coffee table, but never mind. Seeing Mara and Aliza enjoy their afternoon made my day.
While at the pool I was a little nervous because Mara and Aliza don’t know how to swim well and Katrina and I went to the deeper end to swim a little (they were fine in the shallow end), but they wanted to swim with use. That was fine just as long as they held onto the side. We were actually sitting on the edge of the pool. Mara was getting daring and swam to the corner and made it the first time, but one her turn around she didn’t quite make it. Thankfully I was watching her and saw what happened. She pushed off the corner to reach the stair but got stuck in between. I jumped in really fast and grabbed her from underneath. She was a little shaken up, but back in the water like a fish. I don’t even want to image what would have happened if I was not watching. The guilt!
My day at school was not too bad. I was planning on doing finger painting with my kids, but ended up getting my period and was in pain (sure you wanted to know that). I have noticed my craps have intensified since I’ve been here; they never use to be so bad. The trip to the pool helped ease the pain.
I have officially have a favorite out of the 5 girls; Chanlyda. Although she’s not good in here study I just really enjoy her. She makes my day sometimes. She kind of reminds me of myself. Laughs at the stupidest things and is content most of the time. I’m sure my parents will disagree with me. LOL! My Mom and Dad told me they would not take Jake (younger brother) and I anywhere together because in restaurants we were bats out of hell. I can just image how embarrassed my parents were; got to love us though.