The Saga of the Rat

I have a rat in the house. The other day I made cinnamon rolls to take to school. I let them rise over night so that they could be extra big and delicious. I woke up the next morning to put them in the oven and there were bite marks all over the cinnamon rolls. The rat decided that he really wanted to eat cinnamon rolls too. Earlier we tried to kill him with poison but he still prevails. My roommate bought live traps today and a big bucket. We set the traps with fish and peanut butter. Once we catch him we are going to pull a grandpa and drown him in a bucket. Hopefully we will catch him soon so that he will not keep eating our food. I will keep you posted on what happens.

Playdough

Yesterday I made playdough. It was a highlight of my week.

Tiga months

I know I am pretty much fluent. Tiga means 3. That means that I have been here for 3 months, can you believe it? It has been going by extremely quick. A lot has happened since then too. I have moved to a new house, finished the first quarter and have parent teacher conferences tomorrow, and I have taken the volunteer position of being the children's coordinator at church. I have been to Lombak for vacation which was great. I have gotten a motorbike that is being made from scratch kind of. The color is going to be copper brown/burnt orange with white accents. It is going to be off the chain. That is about all that I know about it though, it is going to get me up and down the hill to school (which is what I need). There is a lot more that has happened but those are the highlights. I would hate to bore you with more details. Oh! another highlight. I am going to make play dough later tonight. Oo Oo

Autumn has come to Indonesia

I received a large envelope of leaves from Michigan from my grandma. She wanted me to share them with my students. I did. They were pretty excited to see leaves that were read and orange. They all wanted the orange ones. Here are some pictures of the Autumn leaves in Indonesia.

Colorblind Math

On Friday I was helping a student with math. We were trying to add 7+3. I was using my fingers to add 7+3. The student was not getting it so I colored 7 of my fingernails green with a marker. I colored the other 3 fingernails orange. I had the student count the 7 green fingers first. As he was counting I realized that he was colorblind and that he could not differentiate between green and orange. My plan was foiled and I ended up with colored fingernails. Bummer dude.