7-4-2010 - Wednesday

Wow, the Science Fair is over (that was today), International Day is over (last Saturday) and soon it’ll be Thingyan (Myanmar Waterfestival/New Year). We do celebrate this at school as well, so it’ll be a wet affair on Friday afternoon I’m sure. All in all a very, very hectic week. But with a week and a half of holiday coming up, I’m not complaining…..

The intention is still to go to the beach. Not sure whether we’ll succeed though. Thingyan is THE most expensive time of the year (like trying to book a great destination during Christmas back home). Many places are book full and prices are double what they normally are. Still, we keep looking and hopefully we’ll find a good and affordable place.

I am actually too tired to really write anything remotely interesting. Today we did 2 periods of normal class stuff, English and Math, after which the whole Science Fair Frenzy started. It was fun, don’t get me wrong and the kids had some really great projects (especially my kids of course), but by the time we had put the tables back where they belonged it was time for the kids to go home. After which we still had a 1 hour training (part of a 4-hour intense training course for special needs kids). By the time I left school, it was pretty late….

What about Xenne you ask me... Well, he is doing great as always. He becomes more and more fluent in all 3 languages although it is obvious that he is most fluent in Myanmar. He’s outdone me there already. Half the time I have no idea what he talks about. Luckily he rarely uses Myanmar with me. English and Dutch are our languages. ‘Mama boekje leze’ (mama read book), is his favorite sentence just before he goes to bed. Maybe topped by ‘nog een boekje’ (another one). He keeps trying to get the housekeeper to feed him and I’m sure that when we’re not at home, he usually gets what he wants. Though I have to say that he asks for it a lot less now than a few weeks ago. His 3 year old niece stayed with us then for about 2 weeks and she was fed all the time. He must have taken a cue from that….

For the rest, it is regularly 38 to 40 degrees here. Stifling hot. We’re extremely lucky that we still have electricity most of the time and always in the evening (knock on wood). And we have green mango salad on a regular basis since they keep falling on the roof and drop to the side of the house where they are collected and made into a salad….Yum....