July 1, 2006

• The problem with having vacation is that you are not quite
  sure what to do with yourself, and so you normally do nothing. Bleh. Heather
  officially gave me this next week off, but my body still wakes up before 6am
  and I keep wandering around with the feeling that I am supposed to do
  something, I am just not sure what.

  There is a bat living in our light fixture. or somewhere in
  the ceiling. He comes and flies circles around the room until I get nervous and
  then he tucked himself into the crack in the light thingy. I was overtired and
  the whole thing amused me way too much. Ivana came in the room to find me
  jumping on the bed, pointing to the light, saying “Esta la! Esta la!” and
  flapping my arms because I couldn’t remember how to say “Bat” in Portugese.
  Ivana thought for sure I had just seen the devil incarnated or something. 

  School is over. We had more play practices and
  decorating everything…I made the “door” outfit for Neto because he is my
  favorite and if he had to be a door, I wanted him to look like a very good
  door. And looking back, the whole program was worthwhile enough to make all
  that work and practicing and jumping up and down worth it. To see all the kids
  lined up singing “This little light of mine” with the climax of “hide it under
  a bushel-NO! I’m gonna let it shine” (the “no” was the best part, because they
  got to yell) was amazing. And all the kids got their lines right…even if the
  bee stung Goldilocks with his arm instead of the stinger and Goldilocks didn’t
  like the porrage (we decided to use real porrage at the last minute) and the
  door kept swinging his arms and the flower costume leaked all over the girls…it
  was perfect. What an incredible semester. Totally a God thing.

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