Hello friends,
Well today has been quite the exciting day! To start, it is BOOK WEEK at AIS! My kids were also hilarious today and I found out I am going to Indonesia.. in three days! Yippee!
To start off book week this morning a bunch of the teacher participated in a flash mob! If you know me, you know I love to dance. If you really know me, you know that I have always wanted to be in a flash mob. Well a few weeks ago our awesome librarian came to me and asked if I would help her organize a flash mob to a remake of the Black Eyed Peas song, I got a Feeling, called Gotta Keep Reading. Yesterday after school about 20 teachers came to my room and I taught them the moves (that I stole from youtube) and we practiced for about 20 minutes. It was a lot of fun and very humors watching all of us try to learn this dance. This morning we all gathered around in the foyer and pretended to be reading. Then after a few a minutes the song started playing over the speakers. I started dancing around and soon several other teachers started dancing with me. The looks on the kids faces' were priceless! They didn't have a clue what was going on! After the song we all just walked away and kept 'reading' our books. It was so much fun seeing their reactions!
After such a great start to my day, I was already in a great mood when my principal came to my room during lunch to tell me I had been approved to attend a reading comprehension conference in Bandung, Indonesia this weekend. I am so excited to be going, it seems like it will be a great learning opportunity, plus it's in Indonesia! It was a very long day of finding flights and what not, but I finally got everything figured out and booked. I'll be headed there by myself, which is a bit unfortunate, but I am sure it will still be a lot of fun!
Finally my kids were really on top it with making me laugh today. The first thing that had me rolling was right after I had picked up the kiddos from Vietnamese class. Vietnamese is held in building B, which means after I pick them up we have to walk outside and then up the stairs to our class. When we got back to the room some of the kids were looking rather exhausted, so I asked them if they were tired. This is when one student informed me, "I'm so tired! I had to walk up the stairs!" At this point I am trying extremely hard not to laugh as several other kiddos join in saying how exhausted the stairs had made them! This is the first complaint I have heard of the stairs which they climb at least three times a day. Today, thought, they were so tired that a request for an elevator was put in.... hmmm I don't think that one is going to happen! After having a chuckle at this we got on with our day which was pretty normal until my little darlings were leaving at the end of the day. As they leave they all say goodbye and give me a hug, high five, or handshake. I love this part of the day, sometimes they are rushing out the door, other times they can't decide which to do, and everyday I get a least a few big hugs. Well today one of my little boys gave me a hug, a high five, and a hand shake. He was feeling pretty proud of himself as he walked past and then quickly turned around, and in a very loud voice said, "Ms. Michelle! I wear underpant today!!!" Once again it took everything I had not to die laughing! In the Vietnamese culture it is sometimes common for little boys to not wear underwear.. I'll let you use your imagination to guess why. Well apparently he was very proud because he had worn some today. Just another reason why I adore my students!
There you have it, I can only hope the rest of my week is as awesome as today! Hope you are all off to a great week as well!
Love always,
Michelle
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