Blog troubles

Im having troubles with my journal. It's not wanting to update. Boo. This is the post I tried to post last night. Here's hoping it works!

"Oh Happy Day!"

Are computer troubles ARE OVER! Well, not really. Chris's is still broken. It's still in America. And it's looking like its going to stay there until we get back to America since shipping is SO EXPENSIVE. We can't afford another $180 shipping fee. Especially since it doesn't look like Best Buy is keen on refunding us. ANYWAYS, despite all that...

We got Chris's paper! We can now apply to his graduate schools and hopefully make progress towards that. He's going to apply to both Indiana University in Bloomington and the University of Arizona in Tucson. Woo! What an interesting spread. I'm looking forward to see what will happen to us in 10 months! ^_^

It's a huge relief to us though. Without an old essay, Chris would not have been able to apply to his first choice of schools. That's why it was so awful that his computer pooped out. Now its just an annoyance (both financial and inconviently annoying)! Oh well. Now we can find other things to stress about (like realizing how much stuff we have here and what we are going to have to do with all of it!).

In brighter news, I had an amusing class. My first graders were in very lively form today. I split them up into teams of two, had them names themselves (they were Hello Kitty, Mickey Mouse, Beaches, Kirara, and Paper Craft Team), and then played a weird form of Scategories. I would give them a letter and one person from the team would have to write 8 words that started with that letter as fast as possible. Whoever got 8 words first would yell out "stop!" and the other teams would have to quit writing. It was hysterical because they just can't spell and they would rush and somehow write the same word three times. That wouldn't count and I would have to start them writing again. Heh. They were really into the game. Woo. The Beaches won because the kid, who is one of the worst speakers in class is apparently really good at English. Who knew? He's just a poopy speaker.

However, the real comedy happened when I threw a change-up at them. I asked them to do words that started with "th". They strugged with the blends. One kid, the most charismatic of the class, had a lot of troubles. His word list was "Those" "the" "thravenia" "throwvery" "thowse" "those" and "thise". Yes, he wrote 'those' three times and spelled it wrong during one of them. Oops. He also misspelled "strawberry" for throwvery" and I haven't a clue what "thravenia" is supposed to be. Heh. It was really funny. He took it all with grace and a sense of humor. All two points he got. His team...well...lost hard.

All in all, it was pretty fun. So fun, that I didn't get to play my second game because the kids liked this game so much. Heh. Great! I maaaaaaay try it with the 3rd graders but I doubt they could handle it. They would just mess it up. Heh. I have no faith in them.

So that's all that has happened lately. I hope your days are a little more interesting!