Will you have my scabies?

Scabies
So, this is actually a bit of old news, but considering its been about 2 monthes since my last post, I guess it will be new to you guys. So since about the first week at site I had like little bug bites between my fingers and on my arm. THey reallyyyyyyyyy itched and especially at night. It kind of went away, then came back, then went away again. Didnt really think much about it, but then my friend had the same thing on his fingers and and i said, oh ive had that too........ so turns out it was scabies, which are apparently little bugs that get under your skin and lay eggs. So now, its the running joke that i spread scabies around our region. (lie, not my fault) Boiled all my clothes--really annoying---and got some lotion for them. Well, its been almost three monthes since that first outbreak,,,,and the scabies have decided that they are sticking around. It's actually not so bad, kind of like mosquito bites. I think i might be ablt to get some more medicine sometime soon.
CAt.
I have a cat. her name is matako. that means butt cheaks in kiswahili. i did not name her. i inherited her. So, little miss matako is a calico and is pretty small, shes also pretty prettyh. She was probably the most annoying thing at site for the first monthe. Attacking my feet, arms, anything that moved, keeping me up all nite, crying to come inside crying to go outside. i dont think she liked me very much-she missed her old mama, and most ppl can attest that i didnt really like her either. Then one day the fundi (school carpenter) cut her a cat door in my back door. This cat is awwesome now. SHe is so sweet and loves attention. unfortunately she has brought in a live in boyfriend, and with the cat door he cant stay out. THat may be the reason shes so happy now. who knows? im a little scared she pregnat, but we will see. THat will be fun. not. maybe.

garden
my garden is a bit of a laughing matter. i spent a lot of time digging. its just really small. but corn and beans and pumpkins are growing,,,

school

so school finally started and im pretty sure all of the students have arrived. its an all girls boarding school, fyi. so im teaching chem , bio , and math to form 1. chem to form 3. and physics to form 4. Hvent started teaching physics yet bc i just inherited the class from another teacher. a lil scared for that one, but i LOVED physics in high school, so hopefully it will be fine. So form 1 i actually havent started teaching any science yet. We ha ve 6 weeks of English orientation aka "baseline". about 1/5 of my students know a bit of english. some really didnt know any. All in all, I start teaching actual science in a week and its goonna be a lil scary. BUTTTTTTTTTTTT (one t) I loveeeeeee my students. OF course there are some annoying times in class when i have to call someone out for talking too much, or like that first week when i felt like all the stuff i pulled in high school was coming back to haunt me (passing notes, talking, playing jokes, "helping" other student s w/ homework., chaeatiing on quizes (although i dont think i ever did thata).

Other wise I really like being in the class room and trying to come up with fun activities. So one day i planned to have my students write me letteres. just about anything they wanted , i kind of wanted to see just how much english they could pull offf without a whole lot of structure. So i get to school on Valentines day, look at my lesson plan, and realize that V-day is the day i planned to have them write me letters.....Didnt have time to come up with something else, so i got over 50 Valentines day cards, with some great lines, I dont even know where they got them from. My neighbor is pretty funny teacher, and likes to give me a hard time. So of course he noticed that alll of my students were writing me valentines and got a kick out of the fact that i had to assign ppl to write me valentines. it was pretty funny. Thank goodness i go to an all girsls school. Otherwise that could have been bad. For the record, i did get other valentines, so ASANTE SANA to those who sent them.

SAturdays
When school first started, i was exhausted on saturday mornings. The end of my leisurely life style made me a lil tired. But a few weeks ago, I started getting a lil bored on my saturdays. I really wanted to hike up the plateau, but had no one to go with, because most of the people i hang out with are like, whiy would you want to do that? A lot of ppl have to hike it to transport things from other villages like for business, so i can see why they think its crazy that i just want to hike up it for fun. Well, i decided to see if any of my form one students might want to go with me. on friday i was like, "so tomorrrow im gonna climb the mountain, if anyone wants to come let me know". I figured i could talk a few students into going. Well, i was in for a shock. EVERYONE raised there hands and were really excited to go....so what do i do? i thougth. I wanted to pick five of my favorate students, but thats a pretty awful thing for a teacher to do i think. it might even be awful for me to have favorate studints, i dont know what the goldent rules of teaching are yet. , so i had everyone write there name and i picked five names out of the hat. So we all climbed the plateau and it was super fun and we drew maps of everything we could sseee. even got some pics so maybe i can get those up someoime in the next 6 monthes. Gonna go every sat from now on. computer time is out..... miss you gusy!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love getting mail and hearing from you alllllllllllllllllllllllll