Happy Birthday to Me

So today is my 24th birthday, and it's been very well spent.

I slept in (after getting a 5:30am phone call from my Mom) until 9, taught from 10-1:30 (today was a great teaching day, I taught OIL RIG (oxidation is loss, reduction is gain) to my 11th graders, and after talking about definite composition, told the "Johnny was a chemist's son but Johnny is no more, what Johnny thought was H20 was H2SO4" joke to my 10th graders, and had an "Ah-Ha!" moment with my 12th graders while re-explaining how hydrogentation reactions work).

After school I went to the market to buy food for my party (bought TONS of beans, rice, flour, oil, chili peppers, sugar, etc). During this process I told the market ladies that it was my birthday, and so I got a few presents from them (notably, about $1 worth of sugar, a handful of peppers, and a free can of tomato paste). I made it home, rested a bit, then went out to my Drama Club meeting.

So, my drama club had its second meeting. At the first meeting students basically just got up and recited different stories that they knew (some were actually really great, had a moral, etc). We decided that today we would turn some of those stories into scripts (or so I thought). I showed up with a book of Oscar Wilde plays that I had dug out of the Library to use as an example of how scripts have a list of characters, setting, stage cues, etc. What actually happened was they re-told the stories, then randomly assigned roles to people and they just went for it. Tunred a narrated story into a multi-person performance complete with mannerims and personalities for the different characters at the drop of a hat. I just sort of watched and decided my role in this drama club is going to be mostly to legitimze it (aka, be a teacher who can get them keys to classrooms to meet in and an educational aspect to tell their parents about).

Anyway, to top off my day, I'm at the UNHCR compound watching the Internazionale vs. Chelsea Champions Leauge soccer match with the UNHCR director and a worker from the Carter institute. Ahh, wireless itnernet, satelite television, flushing toilets and ice cold beer. God bless the United Nations.

Until next time.