Gosh, I'm a wee bit tired.

Ugh blah ick. Tomorrow I will have been working 11 hour days at work for 2 weeks straight. Every morning I've been subbing for kindergarten and those kids wipe the floor with my arse. And there's this one kid who seems like a definite ADD case. Either that or his parents let him wash down his fruit loops with a hot, steaming cup of liquid gluclose everyday.




We also have the Annual Class Presentations this week (ACPs). I was thinking, "hey, I'm the head teacher, I don't have to do an ACP, this will be great! I'll escape all that pressure..." How silly of me. I've been asked repeatedly for the past 4 weeks about the ACPs and how they're coming along and that I should make sure they're really good and what are the teachers doing and oh my God, I hope the parents can hear the friggin' kids speak and make sure they don't shag up their words and say things like "my home have a computer" oh dear Jesus no.



But on Friday there will be the last ACP and only one day left of subbing and then I can go back to my normal routine where I have time to go for a run and not eat take out everyday! And make phone calls! Whoo-hoo!



And soon (June?) I will have a new camera and upload my own pics for the purpose of making my writing more interesting, instead of stealiing them from the internet.

Bridget

The Name Game

This didn't work too well with me as my middle name is my grandmother's name, so lots of Catherines...also I didn't grow up on a street 'cause Highlands is just one big, long road with ninety something people living close by it.... I like my spy name and porn star name though.



1. YOUR SPY NAME (middle name and current street name):
Catherine Daie

2. YOUR MOVIE STAR NAME (grandfather/mother on your dad's side and your favourite candy):
Catherine Twizzler

3. YOUR RAP NAME (first initial of first name and first three or four letters of your last name):
Bcan

5. YOUR SOAP OPERA NAME (middle name, and city you were born in)
Catherine Highlands

6. YOUR STAR WARS NAME (first three letters of your last name, last three letters of mother's maiden name, first three letters of your pet's name)
Canownmor

7. JEDI NAME (middle name spelled backwards, your mom's maiden name spelled backwards):
Enirehtac nwoekcm

8. PORN STAR NAME (first pet's name, the street you grew up on):
Poppet Highlands

9. SUPERHERO NAME: ("The", your favourite colour and the automobile your parents drive)

I can't remember what kind of car mom has now - a Corsica? Anyway, I like the one we had in high school....
The Green Beretta

10. YOUR ACTION HERO NAME (first name of the main character in the last film you watched, last food you ate)
Andrew Sweet Potato French Fries (I saw "A Scanner Darkly")

goin's on....

Busy, busy, busy! Tomorrow I start the first day of 2 1/2 weeks of subbing for a kindergarten class, the teachers at my school have their annual class performances starting in about 10 days and we're trying to organize the new school year, which will start in July. I also just started taking lessons with a private Chinese tutor and a yoga class. So haven't been pausing much lately....in fact, I'm so tired at the moment that the thought of going to sleep gives me a little tingle in my belly. It's pretty bad when closing your eyes and having a little nap is a secret thrill.

My Chinese tutor had a laugh at my Chinese name, which is printed on my ARC (Alien Resident Card. I'm an alien! I always knew it was true). When you're a foreigner and you move to Taiwan, you get a Chinese name which is basically a phonetic translation of your name into Mandarin. For the past 3 1/2 years, I've thought my name (which kind of goes "Boo Jee Er") meant "fresh clean cloth." I was told it was a very pretty name, like pure linen or something. But really, it means a cloth that you clean something with. So I really am just a j-cloth. Sigh.

Tomorrow is Friday the 13th! Oooooooo! Good luck! I hope the little kindys are nice to me.

Bridget

Holy crap, it's April.....

And the first week of April is almost over! Damn. I am expecting this month to be pretty nuts, I'm subbing for kindergarten for about 2 1/2 weeks, the elementary teachers all have their class performances at the end of the month, I just started classes with a new Chinese Tutor and I'm now taking yoga once a week.

This weekend is a four day one, like a lot of you crowd have at home, but it's not because of Easter, it's due to Tomb Sweeping Day, which was yesterday. And although this weekend is extra long, we have to make up the Friday day off by working next Saturday. It's because of the Lunar calendar, Tomb Sweeping Day lands on the Thursday and they give us the Friday "off" so you get a long weekend, but then that day has to get made up....anyway, it's a new policy the Taiwanese government and workaholic society have come up with! We get another one like this in June for Dragon Boat Festival.

My poor blog, I feel like I've been neglecting it since I recently became sucked into facepage.com. Poor bloggy.

Still no new camera yet, but I might bite the bullet next week! More later.

Bridget