Well, anyway, I moved to Hawaii. Yup, I've been living on Maui since November 6th. I bought a one way ticket, booked myself a hostel for 2 weeks, about a month before I left, and just jumped in with both feet. It's pretty awesome, and God and the Universe are taking GREAT care of me. I found a place to live my first week here. I live with a 20/21 year old couple. And let me tell you, it makes me grateful that I will never be 20 or 21 again in this lifetime! The boy (Sunny) is from the big island, but moved here with his mom when he lost his basketball scholarship/flunked out of U of Mass. The girl (Pauline) is from the Philippines, but moved here with her grandparents when she was 12 because her parents got divorced. I really should write a book! The month and a half I've lived with them have been non-stop hilarity! They eat my food and apparently have never been made to clean-up after themselves. I give them lots of slack, though, because they are just tiny little idiot children. The perfect anecdote that sums them up, is as follows:
I came home one day, and the living room was full of Sunny's friends. But Sunny was in the kitchen, and the ENTIRE KITCHEN FLOOR WAS COVERED IN BUBBLES! Sunny was using a shoe box to scoop up the suds and throw them out the window. "I think Pauline put in too much soap" he said. "What kind of soap did she use?" know full well that she did NOT use dishwashing liquid. "Dish soap" "Dish soap, or dish washer soap?" again, knowing what the answer was going to be "Uh... the orange soap." God bless him he didn't even know there was such a thing as dishwasher detergent. So, the next time all three of us were at the apartment I gave them a quick lesson on how to properly use the dishwasher. However, neither have run the dishes through yet. But that may be because the detergent has a child-proof lid.
I'm working on getting my certification transferred, but honestly not really working that hard at it. I will in the new year, though. In the mean time I'm a sub at St. Anthony's Catholic School. It's a great little community, and so long as I sub 6-7 times a month I make enough money to support my two-steps-away-from-abject-poverty-lifestyle, to which I've become so used to. When I'm not subbing I help out in the 5th grade classroom twice a week. Apparently there are some "high needs" kids in there. But they can all read and speak English fluently, and are able to sit and listen for 20 minutes or more, so I don't know what they're worried about. But I could see why not every student would thrive with this teacher. She's a big fan of, "let's all sit down and read from this textbook, then fill out this worksheet". It drives me nuts!! Aside from that, I swim in the ocean most everyday! I found that I LOVE snorkeling. I always see something cool! I don't really have any friends yet. I mean there is this one lady who I met at church, but she's like 60, and likes me because I remind her of her daughters who live in Florida. I don't hold it against her though, I probably like her because she reminds me of my mom a little bit.
As you can see, there's plenty of fodder for blog posts, but I'm just too busy looking as fish to write them down. I'll work harder to do better, because you guys deserve it!! Also, I kinda want to make this blog private... God forbid the idiot children find it!!
Aloha!!!!
Kate
Kate, we love love you. I just read this outloud to Joe and laughed the whole time.
ReplyDeleteNow, he will be filling out a worksheet on what he learned.
Also, we spell out the word, I.D.I.O.T. here, so the little man won't say it as his 1st work. He may spell it as his 1st word though?!?