dreaming of South Africa

It's been the second time this week, a random dream about going to South Africa,

I'm not even sure if it's the anticipation of going in December, or the knowledge that Le Roux will be leaving soon for there... YEP! he's leaving, and likely for good until I join him there maybe at the after next summer in Montreal.
We'll for sure see each other at random pit stops around the world between now and then. We'll travel around together and get our fix, but aside from that, we will be apart for the next 6 months, and we're preparing/bracing ourselves for its impact.

I'm trying to be strong, and trying to remember what it was like to be an independant person. It's this weird dependance that you grow upon the person you love. Learning how to be on your own again is like learning how to walk all over again. Oddly familiar, yet so challenging in leaving such comfort.

All in all, I'm looking at the grander scheme of everything. 6 months is in essence such little time, and it's good for us to spend time apart. I'm also MUCH MUCH MUCH more productive when he's not around. (Putzing around together at home may be great, but very unproductive, hehe, and he knows the same of himself too...)

....
...but it's my rouxbear, :(
I was antsy after 2 weeks without him!
arg!

But anyway, I have so many things to do, and I'm trying to keep to the positive.
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Lets not talk about that anymore.
The COOL news is that:

I HELD A FIRE HOSE AND SPRAYED IT yesterday!

For a field trip yesterday, we went to a Russian Fire Station, and the kids got to do all sorts of cool stuff, and among them was spraying a fire hose! The firefighter let me spray with the pressure SUPER big (in comparison to the 5 year olds' measly pressure, hehe) so the kids all thought I was cool, hehe, (although, not only does it not take much, but they pretty much think I'm cool anyway:)

Oh speaking of which, I haven't spoken of my new class yet!

They're pretty darn cool.
I thought it would be hard to let go of the old first group, but I've looped with a few, which has made the transition easier I guess, but it doesn't take long to fall in love with another springy group of youngsters.
They CAN be a rambunctious group, and a definite challenge at times in bigger ways than last year's group, BUT they are definitey cosey in a nice area of my heart.

There are great ones already; there's this kid, he's half greek and half dutch, and he's just about the greatest little guy in the world!! He's sooo awesome. Yesterday though, he wasn't feeling well since after lunch, and he kept complaining of a headache; he does NOT complain for no reason. He doesn't cry for no reason either (Since then, I had yet to have seen him cry), and then he threw up on me after school. Admitedly, it was gross and smelled like the pudding they had for snack (nice one, I know),...he just sat there like a good kid, in front of his own throwup, while I tried to mop it up and tell him it was all ok, and that if there was more he should just let it out. Poor little guy. He threw up on me again, haha, sooooo gross, but then I asked him, if he felt better, and he said Yes, and still sat there trying to process what just happened to him....I know this story is kind of random, but it's just his FACE; his genuinity. It's just so pure and awesome.
When his driver took him a way, he just looked at me and waved and said BYE!

I'm trying to think of whether I'd ever been vomitted on, and I can't say that I have...or it has definitely not been as memorable. Poor little guy; at least he's for sure feeling better now...

anyway, he's definitely a highlight to my day. Just pure genuinety, walking around in red and blue slippers.

I wish people could see some of these kids, they're just kids, but they're so much more in so many ways. Ok, I'll stop gushing now,
It's weekend! YAY!
I'm so used to getting up at 7am, I get so much done in the morning...although I can't seem to keep my eyes open after 10pm...ahhh the life of a teacher ;)