Big Day!

Last night, I woke up to really loud wind outside...like, tornado style.  I had heard that there was supposed to be a typhoon, but I didn't really know what to expect and no one at school seemed too worried, so neither was I.  While I was getting ready for school, I received a phone call from the woman who hired me asking if I was okay.  I was not affected by the typhoon, but apparently the power at her apartment was taken out by the strong weather.  On the walk to school, there was a tree down, a street sign bent and leaves and sticks everywhere.  The students asked me during class if I survived!  Clearly, I did.  Things are now cleaned up and seem to be back to normal.
Another big thing:  I moved during my lunch hour today!  I am now two doors down from where I had been living all week and this place is much larger than the last, like, twice as big!  I have a large living room with a good size kitchen area, a large bathroom (with a very small bathtub, but no shower curtain...) and a separate bedroom!  This place is a palace!  Here is a quick tour of the last place and this weekend, I'll post a video of my new place.  (I need to clean a little and finish putting things away...)  Also, I'm sorry this video is sideways.  I didn't think about how it would upload when I shot it!

 
In the last apartment, I had not been sleeping the best.  At first, I attributed this to the time change, but now that I am acclimated to the time difference and still not sleeping the best, I blame the mattress.  The mattresses here are VERY hard, and I'm more of a soft mattress gal.  So, the man who lived here before me had left a comforter and several blankets.  I had already purchased my own comforter so I put his comforter under my sheet to create a cushy mattress pad.  Now, I have a sort of pillow top mattress. NICE.  I can't wait to try it out tonight!
Classes today went well for the most part.  They asked me some more funny questions..  What is my shoe size, could I give them beauty tips and bake them cookies, etc.  They were also fascinated with my haircut today.  Why was it so short?  When did I cut it?  They were even more baffled when I told them I cut it myself.  WHOA.  A girl also drew me a picture and put it by my computer.  It was my face, a heart and a big thumbs up.  Then it said, "I like you." and she signed it.  Precious.  In another class, I played a game that I had read about in another teacher's blog.  I gave the students each a post-it note and told them to put the post-it on something in the classroom.  Then, they had to tell me a sentence describing it.  I made them do it again and again until they had described 214 things!  First, they described obvious stuff: light, fan, whiteboard, marker, chair, table.  Then, they got creative.  One girl put a post-it on another girl and said, "She is my best friend."  Another girl put a post-it on her friend's supposedly fancy watch and said, "This is my friend's bling bling watch."  My favorite:  a girl put a post-it on her nose and said, "These are my blackheads."  I LOVE this job.