BOLIVIA!!!!!!!!

The "official" Bolivia dates are now June 10th - July 11th OR 20th. Or maybe sometime in between if I decide I want to site see in LaPaz.

There are a million reasons I am excited:

1. I won't be a newbie this time.
2. I know people and will get to connect with old friends
3. There will be no other new people to distract from my experience (selfish much?
4. I get to go to a Bolivian wedding reception (I don't even know what this means but it sounds fun).
5. I get to just hug Nancy forever. Maybe we can talk more to each other.
6. Rachel and Mateo are married now...that's fun
7. Becky is SUPER COOL and I'm excited to spend more time getting to know her
8. I doubt Becky will ever suggest I not eat dinner because I'm a woman and "women" don't need to eat 3 meals a day...
9. Stephen will be gone all summer anyways...So I might as well peace out too.
10. INSANE amounts of time in a hammock with Jesus! :)

A million...Ten...That's about the same right. I could write more...about how I am excited to shop in town...or buy mandarine's on the way home...or walk to kids to school, or go fishing Zoraida style (even though she's not there :( ... Walk to the internet cafe...Walk to town...Have a meal with the Mennonites. Eat at the internado. Eat at the resteraunt. Eat at Pollo Loco (Please still be there). Eat an empanada...or 10. or 100. Buy crazy bolivian ice ceam off the street. Go to a crazy parade. March with a lantern.

Geeze Louise...I'm so excited!

Not a full deck of cards...

NONE of my kids are playing with a full deck...

Baby girl walked in and says "Man...Ms. S, it's so cold outside today."

I said..."Hmm. No it's not. It was this morning, but I just went out and it's almost warm outside."

She says: "Oh yeah, it was cold outside on Sunday."

WHAT? It's Wednesday?

How did I get here teaching these people...

I'm on a roll...

Yesterday I was going through some old papers from a kid who was in the MAC (Making a Change) program. I send down a worksheet on Data Analysis and Probability.



Example Question:



"What is the probability you will flip a coin and it will land on heads?"



Example Answer:



"1/2...Because only one side of the coin is heads and there are two sides."



The above is what an answer should look like...This is what I got from baby girl...

• Q: If the probability of having a boyfriend or girlfriend in high school is .52, what is the probability of not having a b/f or g/f?


• A: There will not be a probability

• Q: There are 75 colored pencils in my desk drawer. 2/5 of the pencils are purple. How many colored pencils are not purple?


• A: There are not 4

• Q: A card is drawn from a standard deck of cards. Find the probability of drawing a heart?


• A: That's if your first card become a heart.

• Q: A card is drawn from a standard deck of cards, replaced, and a second card is drawn. What is the probability the first card drawn will be a king, and the second will be a spade?


• A: Because that was your first choice in spades was the last.

• Q: A die is rolled and a card is drawn from a standard deck of cards. What is the probability of rolling an even number and drawing a red card?


• A: That person gett's to keep the card. (WTH...Did she even READ the problem?)

MY FAVORITE

• Q: A die is rolled and a card is drawn from a standard deck of 52 cards. Find the probability of rolling an even number and drawing a red card.


• A: You lose your game.

With the end of course looming...I shouldn't think this is funny...but it is. Period.

CRAZY

The post is not about the picture...

Although I should post about the picture...and the two other ones like it that tell the story.

I can't remember if this picture is staged or not...I think it might be...But this is pretty much what happened when Cassie tried to cook dinner for me and Rachel one time...

Okay.

Moving on.

I have this dress. It is navy and white stripes. Think sailor dress for a little girl. Make it a dress for a grown up girl...and that's what I'm wearing.

Last time I wore this dress to church my sweet sweet four year old friend Anna Kay said "I like your zebra dress" She's 4. And I think her comment makes her pretty smart. It is very dark navy, so it might appear black...contrasting with white. Just what she's been taught.

But today, my high school student came in and said..."Ms. S, your dress looks like a prison uniform" and another kid says "no way, it looks like a zebra," kid one wavers "yeah, it looks like that too...I just can't decide."

WHAT? Nautical...Not prison (although...I'll go with that one) but ZEBRA. This kid is not AK. AK is 4. This kid is at least 14. Geeze Louise.

Then another kid comes up to me (he is 14) and gives me a lecture about how I was old...and old people should never show their legs in public so at the very least I should be wearing leggings.

WTH? I'm old?????

Have I mentioned my kids are crazy.

I guess I need to go give them tickets (we now have a raffle for the millions of dollars of candy I bought yesterday. I sold out. I'm giving into bribery. It makes my life so much easier.

UPDATE:
A firefighter was in the building and walked past me and told the principal to tell me he had hott teachers and he liked my stripes...I told the Mr. C to tell him he could fight my fire fighter boyfriend. BUT, @ least someone appreciates my dress.

In other news Stephen and I are going to Huntsville on Thursday...you should all pray my driving for several hours doesn't completely scare him off! :)

Valentine's Day

This post is really overdue.

Sorry.

It's my valentine's day post.

So, we had a valentine's day party at my house. I almost missed it. But then plans changed, I got disappointed...and then I found this. Which made all the disappointment DISAPPEAR.

I don't know how much I've said about my roommates.

E is the planner (she planned the party)
L is the crazy, doesn't take social cue's, Northern roommate...she can be really funny
A is in love really. It's ridiculous. Stephen and I had our first date on her 1 year anniversary, and as far as she's concerned that means S and I are gonna just get married.

SO - All year until last week her boyfriend has been living in Indiana living with us.
Anyways...when she did not come to valentine's party because they had to go on a "date." While they were gone, E thought it would be sweet (b/c she's like that) to put two cupcakes in their room for them.

This is what we found....
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Now maybe you are thinking this is sweet...Do you know any boy who would appreciate this? I hope he did...but I doubt it. I'm pretty sure it was silky boxers w/ hearts on it in the box if anyone is interested!

If you are a praying person...

PRAY FOR MY KIDS.

AND ME.

I MIGHT NOT MAKE IT OUT OF THE NEXT 3 WEEKS ALIVE!!!!!!!!!

Meet Stephen...

So, if you haven't met him yet (a.k.a. everyone who reads this minus Cassie and Holli - Skype counts right?), meet Stephen.

This is from our rock climbing trip the other day when he almost died and almost killed his sister.

All are well now.

I didn't almost die. But I didn't do anything hard. Because apparently I'm not the natural I thought I was.

I got scared.

I'll be better next time.

For the roommates who read this...he was gonna meet the roommates the weekend of the race...but he just bailed. Pretty sure he's scared of Katie. :)