Sometimes it’s just not fair…

The much dreaded heat has started again. You know what that means for this family and it’s not good. I’m not very positive about this summer at all. I know it’s going to be hot , hot , hot.
Thank God this week started with a holiday. One day less of work. There is really nothing to do at school. I don’t remember ever been like this in previous year. The brother superior takes care of that but I don’t know what he is doing this year that he haven’t notice. Everything is done and we spend many hours doing nothing at all. This is our last week before summer session and for that I already have my schedule, Thank God I don’t have to teach and I’m going to be doing office work like last year. That starts on Monday. I spent the whole weekend with my family even receiving a visit from my parents and my sister with her family.
Tuesday has you know what the last day of the Brother on the office. He started his classes today. Well yesterday we were there since early in the morning and without anything to do we knew we had a long day ahead of us. He had already clean out his office and got it ready for the next brother. He had to go to the bank and to buy some cloth for the office sofas so he called our coordinator and told her that he needed us to help him buy some things and she let us go with him. YAY is good to have friends in high places!! We had something to do. We went and buy what we needed, had some lunch and killed some hours in the meantime. In the afternoon again at the office I read to the them a letter I had wrote for the brother for the occasion. We did behave and even though my voice broke a few times we manage not to cry. It has been and emotional day not only because of this but because on us personal problems. After school they came with me to my house for a few hours. Today was more difficult. Someone at school wants to do some harm to 2 of my friends. Unfair, completely unfair. Should I know. I was ready to talk to anyone about it but they wouldn’t let me. I was even going to use the letter I wrote. Neither of them deserves this. Why do people has to harm people like this. one thing is to gossip and another to go talk to a superior to do unnecessary harm to two very special people. This is not going to bring them down. I’m going to fight for it. Maybe I’m going to share the letter with you. It’s says a lot but I still have to translate it. Let’s see.

One special birthday

My 44 th birthday was one of the best I had in years. All started the day before when my parents came and my mother help me doing a lasagna for my friends.We stayed up until late doing it with the computer on the kitchen sharing the process with my sister in Texas talking through skype. For this birthday I had told my friends and family that what  I really wanted was to spend time with all of them. At first i wanted for all of us to go to a restaurant but due to the current economic situation of all of us we decided to stay home. At first I didn’t knew what to do because I don’t know how to cook for many people so my mother coming to visit was a blessing in many ways. But let me start from the begining of the day. When I arrived at the faculty I had a small cake from a friend that I later share with my friends at the office with cofee. It was the first day for all without kids so since early in the morning we were working at our refuge. We only got out to have lunch so I didn’t notice any strange movement . When we finished lunch my friends told me to go with them to another classroom and there were all the others with 3 cakes for me. Almost all the time we sing happy birthday to our co workers but mine was special.Do you remember my conversation with our brother superior about birthday’s, pictures at the refrigerator and people that felt left out? He told me that we should try to get us all together again. Well at my birthday all were there except one of them. Not only that, the Superior himself came. I’m not longer invicible YAY! He saw that those people were there, he stayed and we took the pic were we are all together and is currently on the refrigerator. Mission accomplish at least we moved one step forward. Well anyway that afternoon my 3 special friends came to my house to share the special ocassion with me and my family. We had a great time and my friends got to spend more time with my family.The brother who is also a great photographer took some pics and there is one of the 4 of us  that we should frame for him to take to the new place. I was glad my family got to experience our behaviour when we are together and understand why we love each other so much. They were all exactly like they are when we are at the office and I know my family loved them. I was very happy. Another thing that made me really happy was the amount of emails and comments in facebook that I received. Thanks to all.Today I went to see Angels and Demons. I like it but as always not a much as the book. There are many diferent things but it’s always like that right? Anyway. let’s see what the rest of the week brings. Tomorrow we have a computer class in the morning and we have to go and get the classrooms ready for the summer so we will have little time for the 4 of us and I think Friday it’s going to be the last day in the refuge because Monday is free and i’m not clear if the Brother’s classes begin Tuesday or Wednesday. On Saturday there is another party at the same house that we always go. My friends are not going but I want to go anyway.

Our refuge

So this is the place that we hide to find some peace and love, guidance or just someone to talk to.The brother’s office. It’s on the high school building and we are enjoying our last days over there. Since the kids are gone the 4 of us spend almost the whole day working here. We only come out to have lunch or to get our things at the faculty and classrooms. We have had gotten so used to the 4 of us being together that we don’t like visitors  . Our co workers keep asking were are we and sometimes come to find us. The other day 3 of them  came to the office and after a few minutes my friend just announced that we were going to have lunch just to take them away. This are the last days that we are going to have this. Next week the brother starts 3 classes at the University and he is going to be out the whole day and at the end of the week the new Brother arrives to take over the office. He is going to be studying also and they told me he is not like our Brother . That I already knew. So are we going to lose our refuge? Time will tell. Anyway it’s never going to be the same. So as you can see on the pics sometimes there are 3 of us working at the desk. I mainly work at the table by the sofa. You can also see the drawings and flowers of my  friend’s 2 little girls that just adore the Brother. I miss those 2 now that school ended and are not c coming to the office with their mothers.Today the mood at the office changed. I think we are all realizing that we have few days left. I think that we are all going to get very emotional about this even though we are going to see the Brother often. The truth is that we all are mayor weepers. I will keep you posted.

Tomorrow

Tomorrow I will write about these 2 wonderful days. I had an incredible birthday.
So many good wishes on emails and facebook. I have pictures of our refugee, my birthday at school and at home. I hope I have time tomorrow to share with you the emotions of the last days and my best birthday in many years. Best birthday in one of our worst years. Blessings

An update of my life

Well only one day remaining of the school year. On Monday the kids are coming to take their last final exam and they are out by 9:30. This year really went fast. This last days have really been crazy and their behaviour…..well let me put it this way not easy. This last 2 days they have go home at 11:30. We had lunch and after that we walk (almost run) down the hall to hide at the brother’s office. We are working there just the four of us in our peace. Except today. I think we were all restless. I was grading the tests complaining. The brother was in a very strange mood and one of my friends was sad because of another coworker that has health problems. We also knew of other problems so today we found no peace at our little refugee. Ahh our refugee we are going to lose it. The brother is moving to another town, to another school so in part we are going to lose what we have. My birthday is next Tuesday and I’m going to go with my family and my 3 friends to a restaurant. I wanted that above all. No presents. This coming months are going to be difficult we have decided to sell what we have in our business and close. This means that my husband is going to be without work in this difficult times but we don’t have any other choice. We can’t continue with the business. So please pray for us. Something that really made me happy today is that finally Thingy is here!!! A beautiful baby girl came into this world today. Welcome Kye!! Congratulations to her wonderful parents John and Heidi. God bless you!

Life turns

Still counting my blessings. This is the last week of the school year with children. Two more days of reviews and 3 days of final exams and it’s over. Another school year gone. My third in third grade and I’m still learning. This weekend I did a lot of thinking. I always thought that God had sent  my school angels to help me. This weekend I learned that maybe I was sent to them. Maybe we are all filling a gap in each other life. I was very worried about one of them. I spent the whole weekend thinking what I could do to help. This morning I went to school really anxious. I wanted him to know that he could count on me. I was not happy until we talked. We did and as never before. Many changes in his life. I’m going to be praying. In the meantime he knows he can count on me and that i’m here. That’s what real friends are for no? He is not longer going to be with us at school. Not next year. He is going to be in another town. Going to miss seeing him daily but I know he is going to be there for me always. I just wish him the best.

She is back!

Do you remember my niece who went to study for the semester in France? Well she is back. Bittersweet for her. She wanted to stay more time. She loved the experience and she left behind a french boyfriend.He seems like a nice guy don’t you think? He is coming to PR in November. Last night I was in a welcome home party for her. She looks good and happy. This week was pretty easy because we just have class until Wednesday and then on Thursday we had activities planned for student’s day and on the afternoon the Teacher’s party. Friday we had a free day and some of us went to the outlet mall in another town. We spent the whole day out and we had a lot of fun. After a wonderful day out with my friends I realize how lucky I am to have so many friends at work and that even if we have some rotten apples we have a good relationship between all. Ahh going back to the pics in the refrigerator issue. Do you know someone put a picture of Jesus with the words Jesus loves you in the middle of the pics? ummmmmm . Well anyway we are going to continue to put good pics in the refrigerator. At the party we took another and in this one is the Brother Superior. So he is also going to be in the refrigerator. LOL
Happy Mother’s Day!!!

My school angels

Finally here is the picture of me with my school angels. This week have been filled with lots of emotion in school that I’m going to write about tomorrow. Now I have to go because this four are going out tonight to celebrate. We are going to Condado to walk and drink something and just talk. Love that. I will write tomorrow I have to get ready.

I’m back! This week our Superior started to sign contracts for next year and that always brings… drama. The drama is all about changes and this year was really quiet on that field because there were no changes. There was another issue. It seems that two of the members of the triumvirate of terror has told Brother Superior that they felt left out of all the activities and that nobody invited them to the parties( the ones you have seen pics of) and that after them we came with pictures to put on our faculty refrigerator just for them to see. So the Superior started to ask some people about the activities and pics. I was one of those people. Thank God that this time I was ready to answer and I did good!! I was very proud of myself. This was the first time in all his years as Superior that we really talked. We talked way over 3:00. My friends( see the pic above) had really coach me about what to tell him. He knew that I was in another attitude and he encourage me telling me to just throw. Tell me everything you got. We talked about the faculty , the parties , the triumvirate (no names), famous refrigerator pics. We also talk about more work for me and why did I felt invisible most of time because he doesn’t ask me if he needs people for other jobs or for formation In Central America. I told him about my difficulties because I was the only one in third grade without a full time assistant. This time he listened to me  and I was not shy or remained silent. After our meeting I was so proud that I wanted to share with my friends so I went to our refugee were 2 of them were still. As always there for me. They were proud but my glory didn’t last long and the next day the brother did an unexpected move. He told me he couldn’t promise anything about the assistant for next year but that he was going to think about it. I was ok and told him that I only wanted to get my schedule fix with less classes in the afternoon. But the next day when the other third grade assistants went to sign he told that there were going to be some changes. Oh NO I didn’t want that. The others were happy in their places. I thought that maybe he was going to find someone to help in the afternoons. Another thing was that I didn’t wanted to work with a particular assistant. It was going to get worst because I had finally taken a stand? Ugh! Thank God that the Brother decided to leave everything in place and just change my schedule. So last night we went out the four of us. We went to Chili’s to talk , talk , talk. We had a great time. I still can believe I had find such special group that make me enjoy so much the time I spent at school. Go figure!…