This is my disclaimer of what is to come: We did not do nearly as much today as we did yesterday. 

Not in regards to exploring, anyways. Kate and I were in classrooms as regular volunteers for the work day. Kate went to Grade 4 and I got to go help in the Kindergarten classroom. I had a WAY better day than Kate, lol! 

First of all, we were both up at 4:00. My streak of good sleep has come to an end. I woke up at 4:00am and have been up since. I’m writing this at 6:19pm. 

We had coffee, Debbie had these delicious canned coffees and breakfast. From there we went to the morning assembly and off to our classes. Kindergarten is so stinkin’ cute! We stared off doing basic subtraction and I got to work with two little girls practicing how many circles we had and if we took away x number of circles, how many circles were left. Yup. I did math today! And it didn’t stress me out! Because it was subtraction with numbers 1-10………

After Math, kids had Khmer (I think?) it’s all a blur now. And then went home for lunch. They get a three hour break, so I was done an hour early while Kate was still in class. HA-HA! I went and watched the second graders in PE play a lovely game that the PE teacher created. It was fun. Afterwards it was break until lunch, so I came back and relaxed in the room. Fixed yesterday’s blog- stupid phone. After lunch I was back in kindergarten where they played for ten minutes. From there they got to color, we did English and then it was recess. These kids are so smart, it blows my mind watching them in kindergarten writing full sentences. Basic. Like, “The snake is orange” but still! Impressive. After recess they have nap time so I left and I was able to go help Debbie in the library for a bit. It was so nice. To see her cataloging system and how it works. Helped her for a bit and then we headed home. I was home early and waiting for Kate. Debbie texted me telling me she had PB&J and hard boiled eggs if we wanted a healthy snack. I was hungry but waiting for Kate who is done at 3:10.

3:30 rolls around and Kate walks into the room distressed and I said “oooh, rough day?” And Kate responds with “I’m not gonna make it. I don’t know how people do this!” When I asked what happened all Kate went into a rant about “they were doing long division and it was so hard! They don’t teach them the way we do and it was this weird way. I didn’t understand it so I didn’t know how to explain it to them. I don’t know how teachers do it! They don’t pay you all enough” I laughed and just said “it’s not for everyone” 😂

My day was better than Kate’s, Haha! 

We went to Debbie’s ate weird crackers that are made from seaweed. Debbie said you don’t taste it so it will be fine. LIES! I could taste it. Kate could taste it. I also just .. have strong feelings about seaweed. It wasn’t that bad… but.. I didn’t finish it. 

Dinner at 5:00. I’ve been basically eating rice all week. And mango. Not together. And lunch today we had a delicious dessert that I loved it was… I don’t know. A sticky white coconut outside with chia seeds on the inside? That’s the best way I can describe it. It was sweet and delicious! 

We played with the kids afterwards again. All of the kids we had each worked with today came running to play and hang out with us. Yelling “teacher! Teacher!” It is the cutest. Debbie gave a young girl, Sakson, string who made us some bracelets! They are so beautiful! She kept asking for Dennie before she would give them to us, it was so cute. 

Showered, in bed, and it’s 7:26. Dead tired. Also, Kate and I got super sunburned. Kids jumping on us was the most painful thing. But, we made it out okay.

As I am finishing this up… I’m pretty sure a beetle just flew into the fan, most likely unexpectedly, and died. That was such a loud crunching sound! As Kate said #beetlejuice