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For some reason the first day/week of new terms are always the most interesting…for various reasons… Last Monday was our first day of term 2. I would like to show all of you how my first 5 minutes of school went and maybe you will understand why I have to recite in my head 50 times a day “I am making a difference.” So, I walk into school in my new school outfit all excited about my gifts for the teachers from America and all the medical supplies I brought for our disaster of a medical kit (see my blog entry for the first day of term 1 if you are curious) and this is what happens- there are two teachers sitting in the office and they look up and say in Samoan-
“OHHHH Lola!” slight pause to look me up and down which I am disturbingly use to and say “You got fat.”
Through gritted teeth I say, “Why thank you, how nice of you to notice!”
“OHHH Lola’s angry.”
Perceptive bunch they are.
We then proceeded to sit in the office and rotate between eating and staring at each other for the rest of the week. That is very, very boring. Good news for me, I am reading Stranger in a Strange Land the unedited version which is 655 pages long, therefore I did not die of complete boredom and insanity. Oh the best part about presenting the teachers with their presents (gifts are a big thing around here) was when they did not thank me, they thanked…John i.e. Dad! Because Dad is the “chief” of our family he’s really the only one of any importance, so even though he had nothing to do with the gifts that Mary and I picked out he gets all the credit! Pretty cool, huh? I think after he retires he should come to Samoa so he can finally find a family that will do what he says. Speaking of Dad and Stranger in a Strange Land, which I am absolutely loving by the way, Jubal Harshaw may be my favorite literary character yet! Anywho, Jubal has many a wonderful quote in this book, one of which very much reminded me of all my friends and their father’s and it goes something like this
“A little more money won’t do you any good- because daughters can use up ten percent more than a man can make in any normal occupation, regardless of the amount. That’s a widely experienced but previously unformulated law of nature.”
He also has some pretty awesome quotes about religion (which is probably why many people wanted to ban this book back in the day) I would be more than willing to discuss these with anyone via email.
Well, I hope everyone is as proud as I am that I survived another first week of term, only one more to go! Oh the other good news is that I got an email from one John Quality Heckman to inform me that he put 4 computers plus a laptop in a crate and sent it off for Samoa on Monday. Which means that the computer lab of Nene Primary may be up and running by July!! I also convinced the school committee to give me 70 tala for more paint for my bookshelves and computer desks. This is pretty exciting as this is the same committee who didn’t even want a computer lab when I first asked. It’s also exciting because now I get to spend the next month covered in paint!
“OHHHH Lola!” slight pause to look me up and down which I am disturbingly use to and say “You got fat.”
Through gritted teeth I say, “Why thank you, how nice of you to notice!”
“OHHH Lola’s angry.”
Perceptive bunch they are.
We then proceeded to sit in the office and rotate between eating and staring at each other for the rest of the week. That is very, very boring. Good news for me, I am reading Stranger in a Strange Land the unedited version which is 655 pages long, therefore I did not die of complete boredom and insanity. Oh the best part about presenting the teachers with their presents (gifts are a big thing around here) was when they did not thank me, they thanked…John i.e. Dad! Because Dad is the “chief” of our family he’s really the only one of any importance, so even though he had nothing to do with the gifts that Mary and I picked out he gets all the credit! Pretty cool, huh? I think after he retires he should come to Samoa so he can finally find a family that will do what he says. Speaking of Dad and Stranger in a Strange Land, which I am absolutely loving by the way, Jubal Harshaw may be my favorite literary character yet! Anywho, Jubal has many a wonderful quote in this book, one of which very much reminded me of all my friends and their father’s and it goes something like this
“A little more money won’t do you any good- because daughters can use up ten percent more than a man can make in any normal occupation, regardless of the amount. That’s a widely experienced but previously unformulated law of nature.”
He also has some pretty awesome quotes about religion (which is probably why many people wanted to ban this book back in the day) I would be more than willing to discuss these with anyone via email.
Well, I hope everyone is as proud as I am that I survived another first week of term, only one more to go! Oh the other good news is that I got an email from one John Quality Heckman to inform me that he put 4 computers plus a laptop in a crate and sent it off for Samoa on Monday. Which means that the computer lab of Nene Primary may be up and running by July!! I also convinced the school committee to give me 70 tala for more paint for my bookshelves and computer desks. This is pretty exciting as this is the same committee who didn’t even want a computer lab when I first asked. It’s also exciting because now I get to spend the next month covered in paint!
3 comments:
Laura,
I love all your stories and blogs!! They make me laugh out loud. You have to write a book upon your return. Something in me tells me you are already writing one!!! I hope you had a wonderful visit home and a great time at Mary's graduation. Sorry I missed talking to you, Mary and "None-Rider John" when I called. Reading you blogs makes me feel like your just "down the street...well just down the road to the other village...or something like that.
Keep those cards and letters comin'
Rudy say "hello to the girls!!!!"
Love, Meri
Laura that tattoo is rediculous! Miss you fluff!
Actually your malu is awesome, malo lava.
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