February Ancedotes!!!!

Still window painting but this time they can paint from the inside or the outside - we are almost finished!!!! This is a picture of my classroom - looks a little spacious as the desks are to the perimeter for Centers. I will take another full of my students!!!

Sorry I know it's been a long time - nothing much has happened and then again I have been very busy!!!! Actually - it has been only a week - seems like much longer.

Last weekend I was very busy meeting new friends. My friend Christina's friend from NY-Zurich was in town and a whole bunch of us went to our favorite Irish Pub - James Joyce on Friday night.
I had two dates - one on Saturday and one on Sunday - both Greek guys. Got their names from a friend of a friend. Nice people but I don't know if anything will become of it.
Saturday went to a wine tasting event at the music hall.
On Tuesday night I went and saw my friend's friend in a play - however, it was all in Greek!
Last night Kate and I went to see the movie The Reader and half way through the movie all the lights came on and on the screen it said intermission! We both looked at each other and began to laugh!

School keeps plugging along - every day- no holidays - no snow days! Our first long weekend since Christmas will be March 2 - their Ash Wednesday but it's on a Monday and its called Clean Monday.

Funny little antedotes (my life):

• My new granny cart works quite well to haul groceries up the hill.
  
  
• The other day I put a rag on my railing outside my kitchen to dry - it was there for a few days but when I went to get it again it was gone. I slowly looked down to the dreaded pit (the bottom (4 stories down) where it is dirty and muddy and a big gathering of what and if my clothes ever fall down there I will not retrieve them). But it didn't seem to be down there.... I was pondering where did it go??? And then a few days later it appeared -dry folded on my front door knob. I have no idea!






• I went to pay my condo fee and the woman Maria (who speaks very limited English) always gives me food - so this time I brought my heart butter cookies - but still she tells me to sit down and then brings me spinakopia (sp?) on a regular plate so I have to sit and it them all without anything to wash them down with and make small talk. Really I think these things only happen to me!
• I have been appointed as new co-chair of the social committee in the elementary school (surprise, surprise) - an American teacher is leaving at the end of February as her husband (who works for the US Embassy) has been transferred to Hawaii. So I was in charge of finding a cake for her going-away party. There is this email list called newcomers bulletin - so I emailed them that I was looking for someone who makes American sheet cakes. Well, there are quite a lot in the area - as I spoke to about 5 of them on the weekend. So the woman I chose to do this cake (I received 3 emails from her friends recommending her) also makes bagels to order. Greece doesn't have bagels - so I ordered a dozen! I actually made lots of different connections chatting with all these people. Networking!!!!

Pretty mundane I know. Next weekend I am already looking forward to going to the US Embassy for a going-away BBQ on Saturday, to the Royal Thai Embassy on Sunday for brunch and on the 25th I am going to a reception hosted by Kuwait - it's their Liberation Day - I have a student from Kuwait in my class, thus the invitation!

I am excited that my mom has booked her flight to Greece at the end of June. Adele, John and Alex are about to book their flights for mid-July and we are looking at cruises! I have been also searching the web for Safari Expeditions possibly in August - anyone want to join me????

Well Happy President's Day! Can't believe that next week will mark 6 months already! (And only 4 months of school left!) Time does fly when you are having fun!