Date: November 20, 2014
Mood: Feeling Good
Weather: Beautiful and Warm
Listening to: Let It Go by Idina Menzel
Reading: Curtsies & Conspiracies by Gail Carriger
Sheesh! Life has been crazy busy the past several days, and I never have had a chance to make a blog post. So much for making this a daily thing. I've nearly missed more days than I've done. lol Let's see, what has been going on...
Sunday I was feeling loads better than I had the days before, and still wasn't 100%. Hubby had plans out of town for the day, soit was just me and the monkeygirls for the day. Because I'd been sick the previous couple of days I had a bazillion tests that still needed grading before class Monday. Which meant my day was pretty much spent curled up on my bed grading tests while semi-watching and listening to the last season and a half of Californication. (Great show, btw! But certainly not for everybody.) I think when all was said and done, I graded close to 120 tests that day and my hand was screaming. So was my red pen which ran out of ink shortly there after. Too many corrections. Ugh.
Monday was back to school after being off for 5 days. It was nice to get back into the swing of things, except I still wasn't finished grading. Nope, that'd have been too easy. lol I still had to assign grades for 73 three part oral tests, count word totals and make corrections to 43 1-2 page essays, and finish up going over a couple dozen other tests. Seriously, if I never see another test I have to grade again for the rest of my life it will be too soon! [Guess the joke's on me since this is just first quarter of the school year. haha]
Tuesday the monkeygirls and I got back on track with their schooling, as we kind of took an impromptu week off last week since we went to HK when hubby and I were off work. I had classes that afternoon, but nothing much exciting to note. I did have my weekly morning Skype time with my mommy back in Oklahoma. We didn't get to talk last week due to my testing schedule, so we had lots to catch up on. So grateful for the ability to video chat with her. Definitely a big improvement on life compared to when we lived in Hong Kong when I was a kid. But then I've mentioned this before.
Yesterday, Wednesday, was my day off, and thank God because I woke up feeling wonky again. I'm so over this crud. Really. I'm done. Bleck. Stayed in bed til lunchtime and then forced myself to get up and meet the hubs for lunch at the canteen. My tummy wasn't one hundred percent sold on the idea of eating, but I ended up choking down some veggies and rice which then made me feel quite a bit better. I was still lagging though so ended up coming home and just vegging after lunch. The girls got to have a lazy afternoon. Then last night when hubby went to teach English at the factory across town we did school. Not our usual schedule, but it worked.
Last night our friend Bob came over after his and hubby's evening classes ended. Bob is actually a friend of the family (on hubby's side) from back in the States. He currently teaches here at the school with us, but only stays on campus two days a week. The rest of the time he lives in Hong Kong with his family there. So we, sadly, only get the joy of hanging out with him on Tuesday/Wednesday evenings and at lunchtime on Wednesday/Thursday. Which means we gotta enjoy every second of time we get to visit.
Tonight my sister-in-laws from Hong Kong (ages 7 and 12) are coming in to China and are coming over for a sleep over with the monkeygirls (ages 9 and 11). I've probably mentioned it before as well, but it's pretty nice having them so close in age- auntiesor not. In preparation for their arrival we ended up calling today a cleaning day, and we spent most of the day cleaning our flat and shopping for sleep over goodies. Because, what's a sleep over without soda, candy, and chips?! This is only the second ever sleepover we've hosted. Needless to say, my two are biting at the bit for them to arrive; so I'm hoping they'll be here soon.
On a completely unrelated note, today I got to hold a little tiny kitten that some of my students rescued this morning. There are several “wild” cats that the school keeps on campus specifically to keep the rats and such at bay. One of them must have had kittens, but then apparently up and left them or this one wandered off from mom. Cause the students who found her said they'd seen her crying by herself for the past couple of mornings and only just today decided to snatch her up. But in China most people don't see cats as pets so much as hunters. Like the mentality of the school heads, they keep them to keep the pests away. They don't usually consider them as cuddly pets. So when the students took this little cutie in, none of them were exactly sure what they were supposed to do with it.
You see, Chinese people typically lean towards dogs, birds, and fish when it comes to animals in the home. Not a lot of hands oncare is required for two of those three, and dogs are still very different than cats when it comes to the care and attention they require. My students knew we have cats though so stopped me after school to ask me about what they needed to do in order to care for it. I showed them how to hold it- they were audibly shocked when I walked in and scooped it up to hold and pet it. I'm thinking when they rescued it they simply scooped it up and promptly put it in the box they were keeping it in. No one knew how to even pet the cat. Seems like such a strange thing, and yet I suppose if you aren't used to seeing cats as domesticated family pets you would find the whole thing a bit confusing too. I ended up running back to our flat and grabbing a few pieces of dry cat food and a corn weenie for them to feed the kitten. One of the students is going to take it home with him tomorrow, but until then he needed something to feed it since he can't leave the school until then.
Anyhow, that was my day's excitement... I'm off to help hubby finish up dinner before the sils arrive.
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