Its funny how the minute you feel content with life, you really just can exhale and be in the moment..and enjoy them all.
I spent Friday night at the Alpha home!We held a Lock in for the kids as their xmas gift and man was it fun!! Gosh the kids will make you happier than you have ever been!...from airplane contests to crazy dance moves..and finishing with the movie Elf...it couldn't have been a better friday night here.
Saturday I was in charge of games at their annual christmas party! 36 kids turned into 100 and 100 turned into 137..pretty soon i was playing musical chairs and all sorts of tag in the yard with so many silly kids!!
Saturday night there was a Christmas party at mi casa...lots of food, dancing and music! My parents called during the party...said they were waiting for a snow storm....WHEWWWWWWWWWWWWwww what a thought at that moment as sweat was dripping down my body!!
Sunday was beach day!! Can't beat the ocean in the middle of December...and now...its time for home!! yes, can you believe it???USA here I COME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Things i cant wait for:
meeting my nephew!! snuggling biggie, brats, beer and cheese, family time, friends time, wearing more than one article of clothing, driving?!? (yikes- i was bad before...could i get worse??) drinking water straight from the tap, sleeping under blankets!, constant electricity? tv stations that dont play obituaries, justin bieber waking me up in the morning/nothing waking me up in the morning and ahh really just everything Wisconsin!!
and I cant wait to see all of you!!!!
There are soo many things to be thankful for this year!
HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YAY 2011!!!!
Peace Love and the New Year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Saturday, December 4, 2010
We Have RICE?!?!
HOLA! And Happy December!!! Its nice to walk down the road in a tank top, getting sunburned and sweating my booty off in DECEMBER!!! AHHH hard to believe….in this perpetual summer season.
So this week was disability week!! My school hosted a March and Rally on Friday Morning to support and raise awareness to people with disabilities! It was a fantastic march, kids were really getting into it, more like dancing down the street than walking…and we had signs that read “ Stop Discrimination”, “We have rights” “Support us” …We walked the streets of New Amsterdam, with the support of a few neighboring schools, singing our school song, and chanting away! It didn’t take long for the “We have rights “ chant to become “We have rice” chant. It was too funny to stop..and it pretty much sounds the same when you are yelling it! After the march was the rally, we had a few speakers talking about awareness of special needs, as well as awesome dance performances and signing performances from my students!!! The media was there and a lot of people from the community came! We served channa and drink to follow and everyone left shortly after that. However, that doesn’t mean that our day ended. The music played loudly(as it always does in Guyana) and my students and I danced danced and danced the afternoon away under the trees shade(some how I still ended up sunburned)
It was one of my favorite days here. The kind of day that makes you realize your attitude really does change everything about the way you look at life. The kind of day that makes you want to have nothing but happiness and moments like these with kids you love so much. The kind of day that when you inhale you take it all in and when you exhale you cant let any of it go. The kind of day that you just never want to end. That’s the happiness I have here. You can have all the money in the world, all the possessions you can ever dream of, but if you don’t get a day like to day, in my opinion, you have nothing.
Peace, Love and Rice(Rights)
So this week was disability week!! My school hosted a March and Rally on Friday Morning to support and raise awareness to people with disabilities! It was a fantastic march, kids were really getting into it, more like dancing down the street than walking…and we had signs that read “ Stop Discrimination”, “We have rights” “Support us” …We walked the streets of New Amsterdam, with the support of a few neighboring schools, singing our school song, and chanting away! It didn’t take long for the “We have rights “ chant to become “We have rice” chant. It was too funny to stop..and it pretty much sounds the same when you are yelling it! After the march was the rally, we had a few speakers talking about awareness of special needs, as well as awesome dance performances and signing performances from my students!!! The media was there and a lot of people from the community came! We served channa and drink to follow and everyone left shortly after that. However, that doesn’t mean that our day ended. The music played loudly(as it always does in Guyana) and my students and I danced danced and danced the afternoon away under the trees shade(some how I still ended up sunburned)
It was one of my favorite days here. The kind of day that makes you realize your attitude really does change everything about the way you look at life. The kind of day that makes you want to have nothing but happiness and moments like these with kids you love so much. The kind of day that when you inhale you take it all in and when you exhale you cant let any of it go. The kind of day that you just never want to end. That’s the happiness I have here. You can have all the money in the world, all the possessions you can ever dream of, but if you don’t get a day like to day, in my opinion, you have nothing.
Peace, Love and Rice(Rights)
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