Another great thing that happened today was that Carlos bought us dinner. I mean, we bought it with our own money but he got the drinks. He got for me some noodles from this little stand at the grocery store that you can put cabbage and bean sprouts into and add your own sauce. It's about 50 cents for that. The supermarket is kind of on the way home from training class, so after a hard day I can definitely see myself getting noodles and Yan-Yan. I also tried to buy some Doritos but turns out they're about 75 cents, so I didn't have enough money to buy two packs. Luckily, my mom also had some Dunkin' Donuts ready for me for dinner so it was good that I didn't buy them at the store, too.
Today we did our first classroom observations at ICNHS. My teacher is very nice and I think the kids really like her. She makes jokes during class like, "Did you eat breakfast today, class?" -"Yes ma'am." "Good, then don't eat my copies." It was kind of weird for me that they prayed together before and after class and the lesson today was about prayer. They sang "The Prayer" together, talked about what it means, and then read the prayer of St. Francis of Assisi. I've never been in a public school where Christianity is so openly promoted and students talk about their personal religion in class. It will be interesting if I wind up teaching those same lessons.
On another note, Meg and I got proselytized while waiting at school for our trainers to finish lunch. Even though we both told this kid that we were Christians already, he went on for seriously 30 minutes about salvation and hell. But mostly hell. His English got a lot better when he was talking to us about it, and I can tell he really wanted to save our souls. I guess because Meg said I was Presbyterian he figured I needed some converting. He was really nice though.
We had a brownout again this afternoon, so class ended early again. I feel like we learn so much vocabulary in the space of 20 minutes. Hiligaynon is fun to learn so far but the noun particles are confusing. And sentence structures are almost completely opposite from that of English, but whatever.
Another thing America should know is Noah. It's this soap opera/children's show that comes on at 8 each night and--from what I understood of my mom's explanation--is about a boy who was separated from his father at a young age and wound up on the island of Noah. Monkey People took him in so now, years later, when his father finds him, he doesn't know who is his real family. The boy, Jacob, met a giant dinosaur egg that speaks Tagalog and they became friends somehow. I was able to understand that the egg didn't have a mom. Here is a picture of the actors who play Jacob's dad and Jacob.
There are two things I don't mind about this picture.
And here's what the show is really like.
My co-teacher sent me a text this evening telling me good night. Most of the people I've encountered here are really warm and friendly. I'm glad to be here and even gladder that today wasn't exceptionally hot. I've actually had to get under my sheet the past few nights (actually I used Snuggie last night).
Today while I ate dinner I watched a lizard on the ceiling. It was moving really slow, so at first I thought it was sick. I could see each arm move and then it spread out its little fingers and placed them back on the ceiling. Then I realized it was stalking a bug and it moved about the length of its entire body in a split second.
Mga Toko
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