First Day of School

I wasn't going to write about the first day because it was pretty uneventful, but thinking back there were some funny things.  First, the children down here, even though it is the first day, with almost all new teachers throughout the school, are not as well "trained" as kids in the states.  Hopefully it smoothes out from here.  Some funny things though were I had them guess my age.  I was telling them about myself, and told them my birthday.....Note to self, if an adult can barely figure out someones age from saying what year they were born, children can definately not do it.  The first guess was 58.  I was a little taken aback, that's probably the oldest that's been guessed.  I laughed a little and asked if their parents were even 58.....they had no idea.  Then someone guessed 37, more acceptable for me.  They probably guessed 5 or 6 times, before getting to 25.  O well, I'll get it over it.  Then they kept asking about if I had a family, husband, kids, boyfriend.  The look on their faces, was pretty much like I was an outcast to society.......priceless.  But I guess down here, they're all married and 3 kids by the time they're my age.  However, at least I wasn't asked when the baby was coming. ......Yes, the other 5th grade teacher had a student come up, touch her stomach, and ask when the baby was due.  This teacher probably weighs 100 lbs and definately does not look pregnant, but again, at our ages I guess that's common?  The last part of the day I let them ask me questions.  Of course one was how tall I am.  Well thinking like a dumb American, they were throwing out numbers like 1 and a half and 2, and I was like no no, are you kidding, 1 foot is (I showed them with my hands) ......welllllll down here, for those of you who thought like me, they do the metric system....yes I will someday teach the youth of America.....anyways, once I figured that out, I told them I guess about 2 meters because I had no freaking idea.  So then I asked if anyone knew about feet or inches and could guess that.  Some of the more with it kids were guessing and a legit guess was 9 feet tall.  I was a little baffled, especially since I showed them how big a foot was, with my hands, so exact measurements of course, I said enough guessing for today, I'm about 6 feet tall.  That ended our question session.  Other than that, pretty uneventful day, the kids seem great and excited to learn.  They're reallllyyyy chatty, but I did not leave that class until I assigned seats and set up a reward system.  Now it's time for potatoes....yup, just potatoes, it's pretty much like college again and just eating whatever we have enough money for since we haven't been paid yet and refuse to dip into our savings, but don't worry, we bought like 8 potatoes for like $1, so we'll eat all 8 tonight, carbs for our walk up the hill tomorrow ( and by hill I mean mountain side)  Have a good week!