More later

Just felt like writing a little. My sister is safely in Thailand and she seems to really be enjoying herself. All of the pictures I've seen are beautiful. If I lived in Cha am, I would always be out and about walking or shopping or swimming. It would be very difficult for me to become domestic at such a place.

Yesterday was the first day I had an entire class of Pre-K kids to myself which means I need to start putting the fear into them. A lot of them do listen to me, but some of them still think they can do whatever they want because I'm new. I'm much less reserved about yelling at them at this point because I know all of their names and know that they are all lovely kids. Kids don't really hold grudges. It's like their memory is wiped clean after they sleep like in the movie 50 First Dates, and once they are rested they are no longer cranky for a while.

(Continued on January 24, 2010)

The weekend has been extremely cathartic for me. I've been working on a lot of little projects here and there. Nothing too important, but it's nice to finally wrap everything up and prepare for a new week without so much baggage. I completely organized under my bed (I don't think all the crap under my bed has ever been organized) and that feels great. I talked with an old roommate of mine and caught up with her. She mentioned how much more difficult it is to find social opportunities when you're moved back in with your parents. It was easy in college, but I'm starting to like the idea of being more proactive in terms of meeting new people. I'm also taking a break from knitting and painting for a bit because I'm back in a weekly routine. It feels wonderful, but I'm definitely not giving anything up for good. I also finished writing a short book. Well, almost finished. It still needs to be bound lol.

This upcoming week I start tutoring which I'm really excited to do. I will mainly be helping this kid with spelling which I'm generally good at, but I'll probably also be assisting with math homework and that won't be fun for me. I realize it won't be too advanced for me, but I still hate math. I'm trying to be more open about it. Maybe I could try to develop techniques that make math fun for him. I don't know. I wish I had School House Rock videos I could loan him. That's how I learned my multiplication. Apparently he's pretty good at math, but he still doesn't really want to do it. I don't blame him.