Getting near

My trip to Guatemala and the much awaited Dec 9. Can’t wait to see all of my friends, John and Ken. Can’t wait to hug everybody. Each and everyone of my angels. I’m also looking forward to bring onboard 2 of my school angels and dear friends to bring together the people that had brought a smile to my face during the most difficult times. My friends both from other countries had never been on a cruise ship. The thing is none of them are completely sure that they can go. Work day for everyone. I know for sure that both of my nephews are going they wouldn’t miss it for the world… so they don’t care. I keep dreaming and imagine that day. The only thing I know is that i’m going to be very happy. I’m also looking forward to seeing every corner of that beautiful ship. I want my friends to enjoy it to the fullest. I hope I have time for everything. That gives me a little bit of stress. Uhhhhh Guatemala…..working on the things we need to do before going…it will be fine if …they haven’t mess up with my flight ticket…it’s not the same name in the passport…ugh!Let’s see what happens. The Brother in charge promise me that i’m not going to have a problem… let’s see…
Ahhhhhhh!! We are on fire! Did you know?
Thank God I didn’t hear any explosion..I was so tired..but the cloud in front of my house is scary.. But that is the only thing the weather and wind conditions are helping. No smell or anything..

Plenty of work and celebration

The dreaded Middle State week is over. It all started on Tuesday with an excellent dinner at the school cafeteria. 12 members of MSA were at our school, the largest number to visit a school in PR, and I can tell you they were everywhere. On Wednesday I could see them from my classroom all day coming and going. Wednesday is one of my busiest day at school so I was almost the whole day at the classroom including the afternoon without my assistant. Yes her daughter got sick with the flu and she was out for the whole MSA stay….great! Well anyway I could see them but I was the only one who didn’t get their visit that day. They came on Thursday 5 minutes one of them and 3 the other both on math class and it was over. The thing is they left the school impressed and with all the 12 standards approved. Yes we might complain but the thing is with have a great school with all the latest in everything. We are lucky. After that some of us went to Chili’s to celebrate and after that a few of us went to a friend’s house. My friend from Guatemala and I stayed until almost 11:00. We had a great time as always. On Saturday we had my other friend daughter’s birthday. She wanted to go a park at Condado and to eat Pizza. Sitting beside me at the restaurant was another Brother friend of my friend who lives in the place I’m going in Guatemala and I got to talk with him about a few things. He is not going to be there when I’m going but I think he is going to arrive one day before we come back. So now I’m going to be preparing for my trip. I’ll be writing not as often but I will.

Long awaited week and other things

This week finally is the dreaded and long awaited Middle States visit week.We have worked very hard for this and we are very tired and eager to finish with all this. Everything starts Tuesday night with dinner at school and ends Friday starting at 1:00 with the report for the whole school. Each day I wonder how much my attitude have change towards all this. Believe me everything is under control. I keep thinking if something went wrong what’s going to happen?? Nothing! Nothing at all the world it’s not going to end. We are also determined to make the best of it. Tuesday I’m going to pick up my friend from Guatemala to go to dinner and after that we are planning on our usual stroll in El Condado. Doesn’t matter if it is a week day. If we went home for sure we were going to stay awake until 11:00 for sure. Wednesday and Thursday are the most stress full days with them going to watch in the classroom. I’m not worried either. On friday after the report we are all going to eat at Chili’s and after that to one of our friends house. One thing that I’m looking forward too is my trip to Guatemala. AHHHH! I’m excited! I’m telling everyone who wants to listen at school. The ones that really understand me are the ones that have already gone. I’m learning everything I can and doing things. I already started to make some little notes. Decorating some papers because we have to leave notes for everyone during the 2 weeks. also this week I’m going to be taking pictures of the school for a presentation we have to make of the school to the others. The Brother is going to help me with that. I also have learned a lot about the place I’m going to be staying. I’m asking a lot of question to my friend. I’m going to be meeting her family at some point. It’s going to be a life changing experience that I’m going to enjoy starting right now. Making preparations and everything. Enthusiasm is what we need and that I got lots. I can picture myself that day entering the place with a big smile. Passion doing what I like and what I want. The thing is that with something like that on the horizon one starts to worry about getting sick, swine flu and everything and not making it to Guatemala.I haven’t worried about those things in a lot of time. That is one bad thing about traveling. I have forgotten that part. Can’t wait to write a show you picture about my experience. Meeting new people, new cultures. AHHH!! That’s what I like….