Kara lets off some (unwarranted) steam -- deal with it

Wow, you people disappoint me. Yeah, you. Here I am getting all this "I read your blog" crap from various individuals and when I put up a pee-your-pants funny entry that gets right to the core of my entire experience here, not a goddamn (sorry mom) comment. So that's my vent.

Ah yes, so my life... School's just about done. Thank God! I, as well as, my students seem to have lost all motivation for this thing known as "education". So it's not a moment too soon. I've had some interesting experiences in the classroom this week that have "YOU ARE IN AFRICA" stamped all over them. The first of note was this past Tuesday when we had our first decent rain of the year. Yay, right? Yeah, but not when it's during my math lesson! Ack what a mess. The leaky tin roof turned my classroom into a cacaphonous shower. It was impossible to shout over the noise trying to instruct all the kids getting water dumped on them to cram into the already-occupied dry desks. And then all MY stuff got wet. Lesson learned: when it rains, don't even try to continue as normal. Recess time it is!

And the second (traumatic) incident occured just Friday, when during a math lesson, I looked up to discover one the terrifiyingly huge movie-like AfricaSpiders staring down at me from just above the blackboard. Oh, it wasn't pretty. Not pretty at all. But I got through it! (Now how will I force myself back into that classroom??)

In other news, thanks to all the birthday/earthday well-wishers. Can't believe so many people remembered! I had a great birthday. My neighbors threw a party for me in Kongoussi and we pigged out on falafel, pistachio pudding and Jell-o No-Bake Pie. (A thousand thanks to Chris for use of his bachelor pad and to Ami for the yummy AmericaDesserts).

Okey dokey, that's about all I gots this time. Soon I shall start my countdown to my El Azteco "frij-burr" (that's a bean burrito, to the layman) cuz I'm halfway done with my time here in Burkina already. Woo! Here's to another year or so of amusing annecdotes and bragging rights (oh yeah and teaching, too).