KaUaI DiArY

Ahh, so I made it through my first week alive!! I was so busy, I didn't even have time to blog! Let's recap the week....So my first few days were long, stressful, and hard, but tons of fun.  My class is so adorable, and they are sooo tiny... I have a class with most of what they call the "late borns" so most of my students are still four. They are so little and cute....I have a few little trouble makers, which I am sure you will hear me venting about from time to time...as already in the first week of school I had to talk to their parents ;)...but at least they are sweet, just wild! 

So here in Hawaii they have their own little nicknames for everything...It is hilarious hearing the kids talk....For example, here, children call all adults either Auntie or Uncle...This unfortunately carries over into the classroom.  All day it's "Auntie this" "Auntie that" "Auntie I'm firsty" "Auntie I'm hot"...or the usual "Auntie, my leg hurts from sitting, can I play?"...We are not supposed to let them call us Auntie, so I often correct them, but sometimes its just easier to let it go :)...another word they use is "shee-she"(sp?), which is what they call "going potty". So then it comes out like this..."yes", "Auntie, I go make she-she?" ...and then one little girl, the youngest in my class comes up squirming around to me on friday, "Auntie, Auntie, I need make dodo."...TMI...haha, but hilarious. ..hope you liked the little pics...

So besides school, Jordon and I are finally getting settled in our little place....I have wayyy too many clothes to even know what to do with, so I actually had to get a rolling rack...I feel like I own a store in my room...and I had to take over a guest bedroom.... don't worry, if you are planning on visiting, which I know most of you are, I can now conveniently roll out my clothes to provide you with ample space.

What is really cool about our place is that all the doors are double doors and with the nice weather, we can keep them open all day and night, it is like we are living in a jungle!...and our Lanai, or "porch" is fully covered and waterproof....so we sat outside yesterday in the rain watching tv all day and it was so awesome...Another thing..here in Koloa/Poi Pu where we are living...the rain is so unpredictable and it rains at least once everyday... Yesterday Champ, Jordon, and me decided to go on a long run on a bypass road near our house...it was sunny and nice and felt great...however, within three minutes of our run we were caught in a down poor. We were soaked...knowing that it would go away soon...we kept running...then we were right..sun shined through and dried us in a matter of minutes and we were burning...on our way back about four minutes from our house...we were completely dumped on again..hard rain with wind so bad that we couldn't even look up...so much for drying off! It was fun though :)...and other than that we are doing good, Champypoo loves it here because we have roosters, cats, and ducks in our backyard...we found out that our neighbors treat the ducks as pets, so we have to be careful Champ doesn't get ahold of one...I couldn't find Champ, or my sister n law's chihuahua, Darla, friday evening, so I looked back behind the trees and both of them were swimming up the creek following a duck....