My Chin Babies

What do all of these babies have in common? Besides the fact that they are all so stinkin' adorable, they are all Chin refugees. For those of you who don't know who the Chin are, they are just one ethnic group in the war torn country of Burma, now known as Myanmar by their government. I have 2 Chin students currently. I have fallen in love with "my Chin babies." The tiny girl, in poor quality pictures #4 and #6, is the newborn baby sister to my two students. She lives across the street from me and I walk over after school and hold her for hours. Also, Jessica (picture #3) is the 2 year old sister, too. The other pictures are family friends and relatives to my students' family that I have met at the various cultural events I have attended.

I am sorry that these aren't the best quality photos (taken on my cell phone) BUT I hope you get the point that they are so cute. Also, I can't be artsy and arrange them nice and pretty because I am not that tech savvy. Anyway, I am blogging about my Chin babies to put it in writing that I would LOVE LOVE LOVE to adopt a Chin orphan or refugee one day. If I blog about it...it might come true? I don't know...one of my life goals....

The Fly Won't Die.

Things in my apartment are falling apart. Just little things, kind of.
1. The fly. There is this HUGE fly in my apt. and I thought it was a bee (like those huge bumble bees) because it would never land long enough for me to see it...it would just buzz. Very frustrating. Last night, after about 72 hours of listening to it, I tried to kill it when it landed on my curtain in my living room. Well the thing fell, so I thought it died but I couldn't find it. Then about 10 minutes later it is crawling along my floor (on the other side of the room)...so I scooped it onto the flyswatter. I thought it was injured this time. I threw it away after swatting it again. I even dumped a little water onto it in the trash can. -10 minutes later. Go into the bathroom to brush my teeth. The fly is no longer in the trash. What the heck, fly!?
2. A shelf fell off the wall. A big black shelf with a candle and a figurine sculpture just decided it didn't want to hang in the family room anymore. Scary.
3. My light bulb blew out- doesn't sound like a big deal but it is a unique bulb high in the middle of the ceiling in my bedroom. No clue how to replace that kind. My room is dark now.
4. My cable is out. I reported the outage. I then wrote a VERY nasty email to them about my dissatisfaction with the company while I was missing my Thursday night date with Jim Halpert. UGH! (by the way, I wasn't just complaining about the outage -I know that happens-I just have been through a LOT with this company. They always screw me over and while they were making me miss my show, it seemed like a convenient time to tell them).


So...there is an update on my life. I didn't blog for awhile because I was dying of swine flu and then bronchitis. Fortunately, I didn't end up dying..just felt awful for like 9 days and had a fever for 5 days straight. Missed work.

I am catering a party this weekend. I am very excited about that. Also, I am listening to my beautiful Christmas CD now. I usually am an only after Tgiving Christmas music listener...but this year I am really feeling it early. It's relaxing and comforting as I sit by my pumpkin and apple candles burning and grade essays...or as the case is, put off grading essays to blog. :)