I have the funniest kids

I love working with kids. You never know what they might say, and almost everyday I come home with some new quote that my students said. I have been planning to do this for awhile, and today is the day I am going to post a collection of my favorite kid quotes. There may need to be a part two for this; I have a lot.

My 1st -2nd grade class was so impressed that I had lost all of my baby teeth and wanted to carefully inspect my mouth to make sure I was telling the truth. 

"Miss Fessel....THANK YOU!!! You are alive!!!!" ~ 7 year old boy

"Teacher, you are married to a giraffe." ~ 7 year old boy

"You look like a mermaid from Thailand today" ~ 18 year old girl

" I want to make my mom a machine with a mouth that says 'Happy Birthday, I like your nose!'" ~ 7 year old boy

"I can't write!! My writing is like a farmer's!" ~ a very upset and in tears 7 year old boy

"Teacher, why you give us detention? Why you not beat us like teachers in China. I think you not beat very hard." ~ 14 year old boy

"You're going to the rain forest? Are you going to need camouflage? Oh, teacher! What about the snakes?? OH, I know. The snake will think, 'That is a beautiful woman, I will not bite her.'" ~ 16 year old boy

"I want to take you home with me!" ~ 6 year old boy

My 7 year old student observes me being paid for piano lessons. "Wow, you are rich! Are you saving to buy a sofa? No, I know! You are saving for a trip to Africa so you can buy your own giraffe!" 

We are reading together in Acts about when the Holy Spirit came and everyone could hear the apostles preaching in their own language. "So, teacher is that what happens when you can understand us speak Chinese, is it the Holy Spirit?" ~17 year old boy  (Nope, I don't understand Chinese, I just know my kids really well)

"Miss Fessel, is this your hair?" ~ my 14 year old student finds a piece of my hair on his desk. Instead of being disgusted by it he gets out his ruler and measures it. Apparently my hair is 49 cm long.

"Miss Fessel there is a black widow spider!" ~ 17 year old boy
"No, it's not." ~ me
"Yes, it is!!"
"No, remember what a black widow spider looks like from your book?"
"Oh, yeah. So, does the black widow spider really kill her husband?
"Yes"
"If I was the spider police......"

So there are just a few examples of the conversations I have daily with my students. They are hilarious, and I love them!

Hot Christmas

I had the amazing opportunity to go to Honduras and spend Christmas with my sister Susie this year. She has been living in Honduras and teaching at an international school there for the same amount of time that I have been in Romania. No one in our family has been down to Honduras yet to see her, so for this Christmas she, along with my parents, bought a ticket for me to see her.

I was so surprised and couldn't really believe it was actually happening until I got there. It was a really special time getting to meet her friends, see where she lives, and just getting to really know what life is like for her there. Honduras is different then any other place I've visited before, and I really enjoyed getting to see so many new things.

Susie teaches orchestra at Los Pinares Academy and she also plays in the Honduran Philharmonic Orchestra. I was able to go to three of her concerts that she had over Christmas. I'm pretty proud of my sister's accomplishments in Honduras ;)

I was also pretty excited that it was warm in Honduras. I love hot weather and did not miss the snow at all. I got to eat a bunch of tropical fruits and eat food that is completely different from Romanian food.

I also got to enjoy some American things we just don't have in Romania.

mmmm donuts!!!

After Christmas we took a short beach vacation to Honduras' Caribbean coast. We went swimming, snorkeling, and hiking through the rain forest.

It was amazing to see monkeys, tropical fish, toucans, and this animal I'd never heard of before in the wild.

What am I?

The trip from Romania to Honduras is a long one. I had an 18 hour layover in Panama on my way there, and long layovers in Atlanta and Amsterdam on the way back. So I was very thankful that I didn't have any problems or delays on any of my flights!! I think that was a miracle!

mini bonus trip to Panama City

Christmas Concert

Here is my high school Christmas concert. I was very proud of my students' hard work!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNsyNKfDqnU