Happy (late) Valentine's Day

Hello everyone! Hope you all had a good Valentine's Day - I love you! We had a pretty quiet one. I was going to upload some photos on this but the website is not allowing it for whatever reasons.

My new job is going SO great! I have fallen in love with my students and feel so blessed to be able to help them. There are 9 boys. Most are mildly delayed mentally and a few who are a bit more severe. The teacher I work with really respects me and involves me as much as possible. I get to put my PE skills to use and do some motor skills with the boys a couple of times a week. We had parent teacher night on Friday and everyone was saying how their boys really like me. The cutest thing is that one of the boys cannot pronounce my name so he calls me "Mrs. Helping Hand". How funny is that? Sota made a little trip to the class the other day which was fun.


Speaking of Sota, we still have a cat but we have had our moments where we have wanted to say bye bye to Sota! He is a great kitty so loving and cute but man can he be obnoxious! The latest thing he does is try to escape from our apartment (and he has done so successfully about 5 times now)! He never gets far but let me paint a picture of why this is a problem...


Sota sleeps all day when we are at work so when we are asleep he is pretty good until like 3 am. Then he wants to go nuts and play. Lately we get up and give him some milk and lock him in the bathroom until we wake up. Well it was really warm the other night s we had the bathroom window open. Somehow Sota pushed the screen out and jumped (thankfully we are on ground level). When Kieran woke at like 5:30 the cat was gone! It was pitch black and raining out. We did find him but he has since done it again (pried the window open on his own!). Hopefully he grows out of it. He is such a good suck up it is hard to stay mad at him :)



Kieran is well and work is busy busy. The season kicks off on the 14th of March. I decided to help out selling merchandise at home games (man am I a sucker!) . so I will be more involved. His grandmother passed away a few weeks ago so that was tough but other than that he and his family seem to be doing ok. We are still working out the details of his trip for work to the States in the coming months - looks like we will be over there in December (and I may stay through most of January possibly).

Keep in touch - can you believe it is almost Easter?! Time flies - I will have been here for a year as of the beginning of May!