Surviving

Life has been so crazy. I can't believe it has been three weeks (almost four!) since I added an entry here.

Well, lets see. We are back in school at Colegio Americano after our swine flu vacation, and running amok trying to get caught up on the classes missed due to the school closing. Right after we got back it was our mid-term tests so I was deluged in tests and last minute papers to grade.

Meanwhile Lisa's school, Interamerican, finished out their year and Lisa is enjoying her vacation - NOT! The first couple weeks of her vacation two of our cats, Beth and Vicky, have dropped litters so we are awash with little rat-like things that someday may become cute. Also the male Shih-tsu has a bad case of kidney stones. The dogs and cats being Lisa's little babies, she is a freaked out lady at this point.

We had a great little dinner tonight. One of Lisa's fellow teachers at InterAmerican, Kevin, is moving on to a post teaching Special ed at the International School of Manila. We had lettuce wraps and mushroom-and-onion soup and talked a while. Good times.

In July we are both going to the States. Lisa will be using her vacation time to buy some clothes and blow off steam. i will meet her for a few days in Phoenix since I have a mandatory test I have to take for my teaching certification.

This is all fun, of course. I still have my full slate of classes at Colegio Americano, plus I am teaching a High-Level IB program so I am doing some tutoring on Saturdays to help some of the students get ready for the IB Exams in Novemeber, I am also teaching a history class at night at Blue Hill College, and finally I am still working on my Internet/Distance Learning program to get my Social Studies teaching certificate. It is nice to have so much free time.

BTW, that was sarcasm in that last statement, for those not sure.