with thanksgiving in a few days, i thought it would be the perfect time to reflect on the blessings i've been fortunate to experience while on the island.. it would be pages upon pages long if i did the whole three and a half months i've been here, so i'll just reflect on this past week. i know i won't be able to think of them all, but here a few.. enjoy!
* new friends
* skype dates
* melty kiss
* thanksgiving activities in the classroom (hand turkeys, charlie brown thanksgiving movie, touring the "mayflower", reading the magic tree house thanksgiving, the kids fascinated by the culture of the pilgrims and wampanoag indians and excited to learn about it,...)
* finding christmas presents
* my kids singing a song about the ten commandments in chapel
* watching kung fu panda for the first time.. epic movie.
* collecting shells and coral at the beach
* every moment i spend with my first graders.. i don't know how i'm going to say goodbye to them in june
* being the honorary member of laura's conversation english class
* ayana wanting to sit with me at lunch so we could talk about tokyo disney the whole time
* surprise emails
* weather that feels amazing
* sam using the term, "phat", and the hilarious moment afterward when i explained what that word actually meant.. priceless.
* the excitement of going to tokyo in a few days
* jed stopped including me in his "i don't like girls" phase
* my kids all getting 100% on their spelling test and having an ice cream party
* listening to the disneyland sountrack while i looked at the map of tokyo disney.. yes, i'm obsessed... but we already knew that :)
* trying new food
* chocolate covered pretzel sticks
* love.
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