Santiago in September

Sometimes I truly think I am an "absent-minded professor." I keep forgetting to update this blog. So this is my attempt to let you know about September here in my life.

School: We are now 7 weeks into the year! It is just flying by! I have 20 great students. Some of them are really hard at times, but I am enjoying getting to know them and see them get excited about learning. I will post a picture soon--I do not have a good class picture yet. I need to fix that! My kids say the funniest things--one of them the other day said, "Miss Seeman, you can see us really well, because you are Miss See--man!" They are now all convinced that I have great eyesight and can see everything they do. I guess that's a good thing :).

Church: I am enjoying my church here more and more. The guys have been trying out their English on me--so far I've heard "Hello my brother!" and "Hi Mister!" I think I need to start some English classes :). It's fun though. Sometimes I don't understand anything, but it's good to practice my Spanish.

Voice: My voice has been bad again. We are starting to think that it's this country. They moved my classroom last week because I was right next to the neighbor who constantly burns trash and the smoke comes right into my classroom. It seems to help a little bit, but my voice was bad when I moved so it's still just not right yet. Hopefully the nodules did not come back--I will find out this week. If you think of it, pray for wisdom in all this--for me and for the doctors and the school too. It is frustrating, but I am trying to trust that God has a plan in all this.

Vacation time: Last weekend, a group of us went to the beach for the weekend and stayed at an all-inclusive resort. I have never done that before, but it was awesome! It was good just to rest and enjoy fellowship together. I do not have many pictures because I dropped my camera in the sand and it stopped working for while.

I was also able to go to a baseball game where some of my kids from last year were playing. It so happened that one of my kids from this year was on the other team. He was so excited to see me there! I love third graders because they still think their teachers are cool :).

Well, that is my month in a nutshell. I will try to post some pictures and more details later.