some thoughts
a few interesting things happened today worth mentioning.
first, i was feeling very very ill last night/this morning. i'm better now, but i sort of felt like my head and abdomen were going to explode simultaneously. I'm sure you all appreciate that image. Maybe i ate something weird, or something. Anyway, I'm glad that's over. Pinkeye, however, is not over. It probably never will be.
Because of my pinkeye situation, I wore my glasses to school today. I wear them every once in a while to change things up a bit, but I guess I hadn't worn them to music class before. One of my students who likes to sit in front and talk to me about Thailand looked at me and pointed to my glasses. "Miss Stephanie," she said, "you are wearing glasses. I think that maybe you are much more beautiful without your glasses on."
What do you say to that? Thank you? That's not nice? These kids have no filter. And people wonder why I'm self-conscious about wearing my glasses....
Anyway, we finished watching the Wizard of Oz and I got a little choked up at the end when Dorothy wakes up and tells Auntie Em how she'll never leave them again and that there's no place like home. Granted, I cry at Hallmark commercials...but maybe the Wizard of Oz was perhaps a poor viewing choice for someone who is beginning to feel twinges of homesickness. Sigh.
The last thing of interest is in regards to how absolutely ridiculous China is sometimes, but I don't want to post about it until I have pictures to go along with the post. So...stay tuned.
posted by Steph @ 4:27 PM
4 Comments:
Sure, there's no place like home, home is where the heart is etc. But sometimes you gotta go away, like Dorothy, to appreciate home all the more... right? The important thing to remember is that you have a home here with all of us, but that dreams are for traveling. Think of China as one big dream adventure, and you'll come home afterwards a much 'broader' and 'deeper' person for it.
We all love you Steph and I'm sure many of us are starting to get Stephsickness... (wait, that sounds weird, but I meant it in the same way as homesickness, you know, not that home makes you sick, but that you're longing for home... you americans and your weird language!). The second month is often the hardest, so it'll soon get easier again, trust me!!
Oh, and keep wearing the glasses every now and then, especially with those annoying history kids; it's easier to be all stern and teachery with them that way!
Sure, there's no place like home, home is where the heart is etc. But sometimes you gotta go away, like Dorothy, to appreciate home all the more... right? The important thing to remember is that you have a home here with all of us, but that dreams are for traveling. Think of China as one big dream adventure, and you'll come home afterwards a much 'broader' and 'deeper' person for it.
We all love you Steph and I'm sure many of us are starting to get Stephsickness... (wait, that sounds weird, but I meant it in the same way as homesickness, you know, not that home makes you sick, but that you're longing for home... you americans and your weird language!). The second month is often the hardest, so it'll soon get easier again, trust me!!
Oh, and keep wearing the glasses every now and then, especially with those annoying history kids; it's easier to be all stern and teachery with them that way!
why does pink eye follow you to china!!!!?
dorothy's shoes were gaudy and dragqueenesque...eff her
-kat
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