July 23, 2009 - Thursday

Hot and sunny.

An okay day. I got up a little late but it wasn't a big deal, until I remembered that today someone was coming to see if we had any trouble with the walls or doors in the apartment. Yikes. I got up and got dressed, made the bed, really fast. Just in case. I sat around the apartment and waited. And waited. Finally I decided that I wanted to take my shower, so put the security bar on the door and did. Of course, I thought I heard someone while I was in my shower, rushed out, and no one was at the door. Whew. Still, job one was done. The guy did show up about 20 minutes later, but F had forgotten to fill out the paper, so the inspection guy left without coming in. Yay. He was nice even if neither of us had a clue what the other person was saying!

I had a good afternoon today. I read some of the newspaper, then I watched a bit of telly. Saw a horrible Robin Williams movie. Thank goodness I didn't pay to see it. Around 3:30 I started making my lunch and then cleaning up to go. I left around 5 pm.

I heard my cellphone ringing in my backpack so thought that my student wouldn't be coming, but I was already halfway to the school, so decided to keep going. Besides, a little extra time in the school wouldn't hurt. I got there and it was so very hot. It was over 30 degrees. Bleck. I turned on the AC and the fan and it soon became manageable. Although I did try to call my student back, she didn't answer. She didn't come to class either. Oh dear.

My other two classes did happen and went quite well. I had fun with the two children students. After class their mother and I chatted with them for a bit. My last class of the day went really well I thought. I had put the new vocab on cards. Usually I use them for review with the student, but today I used them to introduce the vocab to the student. I asked her to put the words into 3 piles - 1) words she knows, 2) words she thinks she knows 3) words she doesn't know. It worked really well. She does quilting so I thought she'd appreciate the tactility of the cards. She did. And after we'd gone through all of the vocab, she took the lead and separated everything into nouns, verbs and adjectives all by herself. Hurray.

After class, I finished up and called F. He was sleeping at home. Sigh. Poor guy is just not doing well right now. He came and picked me up. We went to Cocos for dinner. We both wanted something light for dinner, so he had French toast and I had a taco salad. It was nice.

We came home via the grocery store and got a few things. I've asked F to make cold soba for dinner tomorrow. I was going to make cold pasta, but I have no idea how to make the sauce for it! We got a bit of cold chicken too, so there'll be some protein for me.

At home, F went to bed very soon after we came home. I have been on my computer most of the night. Just reading email and that sort of thing.

And that was my day.Tomorrow I have one evening class but I want to do a little shopping before it. Wish me luck with that! Got to go. Night night.