1st day of school

so yesterday was our first day of school!

we are in a transitional period in the schools on two fronts:

1: the teachers we are replacing are still in the schools and,

2: its testing time, which means the kids don't have classes and just have tests all day



so we went in and met our respective vice-principals and principals. story of the day:



my principal asked where i was from, and i said florida

he asked where i went to university and i said greenville illinois

he asked me why i traveled so far to go to university, and i said that i was born in chicago

my principal said "i know chicago, obama from chicago"



no matter your personal feelings obama has definitley captured lots of peoples imagination.



we then learned about our placements some more, tova met her students (they were really excited and called her mrs. america!), mine were testing.

then we drove to get our alien registration cards. its really interesting to think of us as aliens:

apparantley we cant get anything done without it, so its pretty important. we then checked out cell phones. we are probably going to get cell phones since they only cost 15 bucks a month.

then we tried to go out to eat by ourselves. we ordered what i thought was a green onion pancake. but instead it came with all kinds of sea food, which i am not a fan of. octopus legs and other things were on top of it, and i couldnt eat it :-/ at the very least we also ordered fried chicken and it was very good.

all in all pretty interesting day, learned a lot, and knew new ways to order food!