Honesty is the best policy

I was in POS two Saturdays ago meeting some friends to go shopping. I was crossing the road when I saw a cell phone on the ground. I picked it and went about my business.
A while later, while waiting for my friend to pick me up, I looked through the phone directory and found an entry entitled Mommy, so I called the number and let the person know I had the phone.
It took a couple of days for her to get the phone back, but eventually she got it.
She sounded so relieved.

I posed this situation to some of my students asking them what they would do. Most of them said they would have kept the phone.
Sad really.

What a day

Yesterday Trinidad and Tobago, as well as a few other neighbouring countries, experienced a 6.0 earthquake.
I was on my way to POS when it happened. I was in a maxi so I didnt feel anything. I only heard a comment on the radio about it.
The traffic lights werent working and that was causing a lot of traffic. My doctor's appt had to be postponed because of no electricity.

So I quickly got out of POS because I thought that businesses and schools would have let ppl go home early.
I was home when around 2:20pm, I experienced an aftershock which was 5.5. I was very scared. I was home alone.
Imagine we are being told that we have to prepare for THE BIG ONE. I am so scared. An earthquake bigger than a 6.0???

update

It's been a while since I have written anything here.

What's new with me?

Today there was a fight between a teacher and a student. It's not the first time this teacher has had run-ins with students. He just doesnt know how to interact with students. Poor ting..he get a buss head.

I dont like teaching form ones this year for some reason...they irk me.

I have been doing yeoman's service, by staying behind for some teachers' cell group meetings. Just a way of helping new teachers.

I dont like the way things are run in my school.There are better ways to do things.

my weekend

Friday afternoon, a few coworkers came over to my house and we just chatted for a while over some snacks and a few drinks. However, the could not stay too long because I had to get ready for dinner.

My bf made reservations at Il Colloseo and we got there at 8pm. The ambiance is really nicr, as well as the decor. I was adventurous and ordered some authentic potato dumplings, a spinach and ricotta cheese crepe and a pastry shell with seafood filling. The food was nice, but the sauces were a bit rich.
Saturday and Sunday for lunch, I wanted simple foods, like pelau and corn beef and pasta.

It was a nice way to celebrate our anniversary.

Dentist visit

I went to the dentist today.
Going to the dentist was not a regular thing in my family. I remember going once when I was ten and that's it.
Growing up, it was a choice between necessary and not so necessary. Food: necessary; dentist visits, not so necessary.Money to go to school:necssary; driving lessons: not so necessary.
Luckily when I started teaching in 2001, i got health insurance and that's when I started my regular visits.
Today I went to check on an old filling. I was given the bad news: I need a root canal as well as another stern warning that all four of my wisdom teeth need to come out.

aarrgghh!

3 years have passed

So tomorrow will be 3 yrs since my bf and I started our relationship. We have come a long way.
We used to argue a lot and not see eye to eye, but now we are good at compromise now.
I love him....I truly do.

wedding in the air

No, not mine. A friend of mine from church. He proposed to his gf this weekend and she said yes. He is ecstatic. I was supposed to call him to find out how it went down, but it just didnt happen tonight.
He said when he gets a house, then he'll set a date. When will that be? Houses REAL expensive!

I wish him all the best.

First week.

I am tired. This week was a long one and I am glad it's over. 13 more to go till Christmas.
My form class is still the same. I have a new form one. I am so tired of teaching form ones. I think I'll ask for a break from them.
My relationship with my mother is getting better, however, with my sister, it's not. I dunno, she's just so..........strange.
But I dont fight it down.

So I am getting ready for another week. Bleh...........

you bitch!

Babe
In
Total
Control of
Herself.

Is that REALLY what a bitch is?

swiffer

Today I decided to clean the kitchen, so I ate my lunch, watch Flavour of Love 2, then I headed to the kitchen. I scrubbed down the counter, cleaned the stove, and swept.
My mother bought me a swiffer, so I thought that I should put it into use.

It was easy to assemble, but then came the hard part: putting on the wet cloth. There are some very tight slots that one has to slip the cloth into as well as it was dripping, but I eventually got it in.
I must say the floor of the kitchen feels really good now, much better than a mop.
So maybe having the swiffer might entice me to clean more..............yeah right!

Driver driving good

I wasnt fortunate like most of my friends to get my licence at 17. Money needed to be spent on food and bills rather than on me learning to drive. I admit I used to look at my friends driving in their parents' cars with a tinge of jealousy.

Even when my mother bought a car, I should have been compelled to get my licence, but I had to choose between money for UWI or a licence.

I made an attempt in 2000/2001 to get my licence, but I failed the yard test. I was so traumatised that I waited till 2005 to make my second attempt. This time I passed. YAY me!

So I had my licence...and no car to drive. So that was a bust. One of my friends was so kind as to let me drive her car around school. Then on Friday, another friend let me drive from school to mall. I liked it! I liked driving myself around, getting from point A to point B. And I imagined myself doing that on a regular basis......... and it felt good.

Now the interest rate in the bank is steadily going up, so I dont know if I can afford to get a car, but I really want one. I can go to all those events that I have to deny myself because of mo transport. So we'll see how things go.