Stress of Midterms? Bahahaha

So it is midterms time and am I stressed? Nope? Not even about making and grading midterms? Nope, because I did not make them and am not grading them. My coteachers gave them their appropriate tests, though I did have to proofread all of them last week. So it is such a lazy week for me.  I have only taught two classes this week and they were poise and soccer. I have talked to a lot of friends lately and even heard some real voices. If I keep this up my fellow teachers here will stop trying to kill me. Since the English I speak most of the time every day that I am here is simple, slow, broken, grammatically incorrect, and improv tonal, I still end up speaking it to some of my fellow teachers when we meet. Which drives them mad! "We are not Thai, speak normally!" "I am not stupid you know!" After five days with them this weekend it finally faded and also have talked to people from America since then so it has stayed that way this week. But there are still two weeks before the group is summoned together again and that is time enough for my Thai accent to appear again. Oh well.

So I realized yesterday that I have a slight problem and I don't really care. Tiny Casanova is also in my soccer class and the boy has a mischievous streak in him. Not bad, but still doing things he knows he shouldn't. And when I go to scold him I nearly always end up laughing or smiling. Discipline fail. But I don't really mind. He is not doing hurtful things and that boy has more buckets of charm that many people I know. I caught him doing something he shouldn't at soccer the other day and his mouth formed a large "O" and his arms came up in the "What?" sign. But his eyes were full of mischief and we both know it. Oh child, what am I going to do with you? And oh my, how many hearts you are going to break when you grow up. Maybe not. I will try to teach you well or as my teachers put it "how to use your powers for good." Boy even decided to include me in the passing game I was having them do. Little suck up. Little, adorable, mischievous, suck up.

Well...besides that there is not much going on these days. I may hang with some friends this weekend, I may not. After so much friend time I am glad for a few days of pretty much just me. Me in my office reading. Me at home reading. Just sort of unwinding. And I downloaded another twenty books. I am trying to find a needle so that I can sew my tablet case. The handle was ripped in the motorcycle accident and has gotten progressively worse since then. So there are small menial things to take care of. Right now I am off to school. Today I MUST make lesson plans for next week lol.