physio THER a PY.

things are settling down in the big city

besides the frustrations of cold and rain, being stuck in your house when you want to get a taxi on rainy fridays, and having to wear flip flops to work, i am doing a-ok.

school is insane. my kids and i went through a honeymoon period for sure. we are now quite definitely out of that phase. today i had to send a discipline referal for roughhousing during a LAB ACTIVITY (um... what?!) and lecture a queen diva outside to check her attitude and lying-skills at the door.

i miss my old manizalenos but i realize it's only because we knew each other so well that it was easier. it will come here.

curriculum is a bit of a mess but planning is going well - the middle school science dept (ie three teachers) has a lab assistant and he is running around picking up cool stuff for experiments and helping me make copies and figure out the computer systems. it's been helpful. but que stress.

i am glad skype exists.

on my first night in bogota trying to venture out to juli's i totally banged myself right up carrying a box down some stairs. i tripped. i rolled over on my foot. it effing hurt.

i didn't have much time, so me feeling invincible decided it would likely just heal. no prob.

10 days later. still got a puffy ankle. bibi abri and juanma are at my house saying get to the doctor you idiot.

went to the doc. got x rays and put in a hard ankle brace which is not a SHOE in and of itself but yet does not allow me to wear any kind of shoe WITH it unless that shoe has no back. ie, the flip flop.

so my toes are a bit cold.

tomorrow i go to PHYS i O!

the apto is great and i have plenty of space for whoever drops in. come stay with me.

otherwise i am quite in love with this city and the nice things there are to do. we went walking to a great french patisserie and sat in the sunday sun. i am going to buy a (cheap and crappy) bike. the transit system gets you places. i have more than 4 friends. the art galleries are free. jazz al parque is this weekend.

gotta mark then enrico's birthday, if i can swing it without falling asleep.

xo.