Sunday Evening..

All of you are fast asleep, it is 5:15AM your time, and I am just chilling..Had a great Sunday. Jordan stayed in last night, and we stayed on Skype for 5 hours. I am not kidding, 5 hours..It is so amazing that we can talk for hours and hours, 10 times a day and never have a silent moment. He makes me so happy:) I know, some of you think that is lame but I just have to share! For so many years I would pray that I would meet someone that I could be with and not get tired of..and all of you know that I have dated all of the men in AZ. Ladies used to tell me through the years to just be patient, that it would happen when I would least expect it. I never believed them..I also hated when people would say, "You will know when it is right!" Now I know that is all TRUE. I wish I could tell the rest of the single people to not SEARCH! And how odd that I would end up falling in love with Jordan, I remember when he lived with me 4 years ago. And he was always telling Joel he would marry me someday.. How funny:)

Anyways, 3 weeks of school are down. I am working on my lesson plans for this week tonight. Now that all of my kids have their own Macs, I am trying to get everything online. I also stress that I won't be able to challenge them enough, and I don't want to just load them up on work, I want to make it meaningful. That just means I need to work harder. We had our first volleyball match yesterday. It was a cool setup, and I had no idea what to expect. I mean, NO IDEA. I didn't even know until Friday morning that it was an all day event. Honestly for me I am struggling with getting to know a whole new system. I know I have mentioned it before, but it is not easy learning a new job after 7 years of staying at one place. When I took this job I did not think about the adjustment to the new job phase. This is good for me though. My biggest thing is keeping my little BIG mouth quiet:) Roll with the punches right? It is not that I think they do things wrong here, I actually know they do things a great way, it is just the process of knowing those things...

Each day gets a little better. Participating in that tourney yesterday made me feel good. My girls skill level is pretty low, but they have heart/desire and that is what matters. Academics are first here, they just play sports for fun and to stay active. Not like the states where kids are playing from the age of 2. It is also nice that the girls do not have any atitude, they would never even think to disrespect a coach, nor do they show any sort of negative emotion if they don't play. That is nice, I am sure I won't have to worry about any parents giving me a hard time either! I also really enjoy the people I coach with. One of the girls I coach with is from Cal, she is so much like me. Hopefully we can start hanging out more. Just working with girls from all over the world will make every moment worth it. I have girls from Korea, Holland, Finland, Michigan, Kentucky, and more.. Learning the different cultures is the best part.

SCIS has 3 campuses, in 3 different cities in China. They also have a school in Jakarta, South Africa, one in Indonesia and they are building one somewhere else as well. The tourney yesterday was just in-between our sister schools. Basically rivals, and we lost everything:( We will improve though! And MOM you will be proud, they had a staff/student game, I didn't play. It was one of the hardest moments, saying no and admitting I am hurt. I didn't think I was hurt anymore, played last week, was barely able to get out of bed the next morning. SO, I signed up for Ultimate Frisbee instead! I start tomorrow. We have a league that plays on Monday nights. It is in the city, a few of us are going to share a cab. If this sport is to hard on my back I am going to pick up gluttony. You know where they eat for a competition?

Going to finish my movie, wrap up my last bit of planning and hit the hay. I did make my first real meal tonight. Not to mention it was actually healthy. I made a chicken stir fry. I made enough for tomorrow as well, so no more ramen for lunch. I have a new AYI starting Friday, in addition to my other maid and this AYI is just going to cook and shop. That should help me get some of this baby weight off. LOl. More like booze weight. This maid is Filipino, speaks fluent English, so she is going to hook me up. She made a dish last week for a friend that was amazing.. All of this and I pay less then a $100 a month for my ayi's! Life is good!

Miss you all, talk soon.