Home so far has been nothing but...

GIGGLES !!!

And a lot of SLEEPING !!!

ZZZzzzzzzZZZzzzzz

Wake me up in a week

(smiling)

GOOD TO BE HOME

How do I feel...?

My first year being an official teacher is 

DONE!

(if you can really call what happened this year teaching - BAH - ha - errrr?)

Sometimes a picture can say it all.

Thank you Malcolm & David.

Mal for embodying exactly how I feel and Crazy-Dave for capturing the moment.

YAY!

Moving on to bigger and better things.

Me another year of teaching in Dhaka, Bangladesh. 

Mal moving to senior kindergarten...or is it called preschool?

Either way - BOOM!

luv

Miss Wells

(Pssst - Auntie Lolo to YOU!)

The Ms.Wells x3

Morning sunshine - happy go LUCKY - full of energy

and absolutely NO FOCUS because high on caffeine and doing four things at once!

Playing music, singing songs, taking attendance, and reading announcements.

Phewww not sweated through my shirt yet!

Calmed down from morning rush.

Afternoon belly full of lunch.

Hot and humid, sweating too much.

Wish I was in the pool doing a workout but sigh*

Grade 9 Humanities - BOF!

 

(big YAWWWWN*)

Finally it's evening time. 

Finished run, did some grading and wrote my blog - opps and finished teaching too!

Tired - more tired - and too tired to do anything else

but eat and go to bed.

Cycle starts again tomorrow.

WAIT A SECOND - NO IT DOESN'T.

LAST DAY OF SCHOOL FOR MS.WELLS - YIPPEEEEEEEEEEE!

So...yeah.

Faces, FACES and MORE friendly FACES!

Ahhhhh!

Home at last, well soon.

Actually.

Not really, but close.

Two days.

Where do you go when you have a flat?

This is where you go.

DUH!

This is their home or where they "hang out" for most of the day...its on the corner of a pretty busy street.

He pumped both my tired, made me smile and probably was payed less 

than a dollar because that would have been WAY 

too much!

(I have been scolded before by HIM for giving too much!)

So....yeah. 

SHENANIGANS; Why not?

Put a BUNCH of teachers together

in the same room, 

give them free food, beverages and watch the silly things start happening...

Like what?

Here are just a few examples;

Department heads and their staff will all get along - Har-HAR!
(especially when they reach consensus that Ms.Wells cause the MOST trouble this year)\
(clearly I disagree...well, okay...so WHAT?!?)

Teachers cleaning up well and taking model shots...

...or not.

Games of GREAT skill and AGILITY...

....requiring a lot of control, composure and concentration.

Photos illustrating people's TRUE COLOUR!
(He's an art teacher, can you blame him for not knowing how to use a camera?)

Contemplating - tie or no tie?

The God Father of Humanities

People getting in trouble for accidentally breaking things...

...oppsieeeeeeeeeeee daisies!

And large group photos that had to be taken OVER and OVER again in order to get that 'perfect' shot.

This was the fourth shot?

Big fail; I didn't help.



Just a FEW of the silly things that can happen when a bunch of teachers get together and enjoy themselves.

No big deal.

;-)

Sleep is NEVER over-rated ;-)

I love that when I am absolutely sick from the
LACK OF SLEEP I've had these last few weeks

I find articles like this....

WARNING: this will NOT make me feel better 

about yourself if you haven't gotten a lot of sleep lately.

Awesome Lauren

Truly looking forward to having more sleep for the next two months.

Ahhhhhhh!

http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/06/17/the-sleep-crisis/

Sleep crisis: The science of slumber

Go to bed. On time. Tonight. Or else

by Luiza Ch. Savage on Monday, June 17, 2013 8:00pm - 1 Comment

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WHAT IS THIS ?  

Florian Jaenicke/Redux

The sleep doctors are coming and they want you to go to bed. On time. Tonight. Every night. Or else.

They want doctors to add a single question to routine checks of vital signs like body temperature, pulse, blood pressure and rate of breathing. The question is: How did you sleep?

If you’re like most people, probably not well, or at least not enough.

Coffee-fuelled North Americans, with our smartphones at our bedsides, are sleeping, on average, nearly two hours less than we were 40 years ago, when most people slept 8½ hours or more. More and more people are being diagnosed with sleep apnea, a disorder in which breathing is disrupted during sleep. And insomnia, which affects about 10 per cent of the population, is no longer considered merely a symptom of other medical or psychiatric problems but has been classified as a full-fledged disorder in its own right.

The scientific evidence is mounting that getting less than the recommended seven to nine hours of nightly sleep is having wide-ranging impacts on our bodies, our minds and, especially, on the health of our children, who need even more sleep: 10 to 11 hours per night.

In March, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention declared that “insufficient sleep is a public health epidemic.” It released a survey showing that more than 35 per cent of U.S. adults reported getting less than seven hours of sleep a night; 38 per cent reported unintentionally falling asleep at least once during the day in the preceding month.

Armed with proliferating studies, the sleep scientists are turning their attention from the laboratory to advocacy, asking lawmakers for more research funding, and urging the general public to start thinking about sleep loss the way we think about smoking: as a serious hazard to our health.

The evidence is chilling. When researchers at the University of Chicago took seven lean and healthy volunteers and restricted their sleep to only 4½ hours per night, they found a result that went far beyond mere grogginess. Their very cells had been transformed. It was as if the bodies of the otherwise healthy specimens had been swapped with that of someone else: someone heavy and sick.

The six men and one woman, average age 24, took an intravenous test to measure how their bodies responded to glucose, and researchers biopsied samples of fat cells from their abdomens to test how the cells responded to insulin. Compared to results from the same tests carried out when the volunteers were well-rested, their bodies’ insulin response had decreased by an average of 16 per cent and insulin sensitivity of their fat cells decreased by 30 per cent—levels comparable to the differences between lean and obese people, and those with diabetes compared to those without. While the link between sleep, obesity and diabetes has become a burgeoning area of research, this was the first time someone had shown how sleep changes human metabolism at a molecular level. Even our fat cells, the researchers concluded, need sleep.

“Some people claim they can tolerate the cognitive effects of routine sleep deprivation,” said Eve Van Cauter, professor of medicine and director of the Sleep Metabolism and Health Center at the University of Chicago, a lead researcher on the study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine last fall. “In this small but thorough study, however, we found that seven out of seven subjects had a significant change in insulin sensitivity. They are not tolerating the metabolic consequences.”

KEEP READING HERE!

http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/06/17/the-sleep-crisis/

SHOUT OUT TO TONY AND SCOTT MORE FOR THIS INFORMATIVE ARTICLE ;-)

Sometimes You Just Need A Bachlorette...

Time is ticking away.

Things are moving fast.

Four more days left of school, report comments all done, assignments almost all done.

Sleep is still at a deficit but the energy to keep going

comes from events like these....

The "bride-to-BE"
(a.k.a. lovely Erica) 

Fancy hotel, fancy skyline, fancy LADIES!!!

Nuff said.

Cosmopolitans? Don't mind if I do.

We look good together - that's what neighbors do ;-)

What the HECK happened in this picture?
I DO NOT LOOK GOOD - BAH!

Bride to be got into an INTENSE pool game with strangers...of course,
I backed her up (Erica is Canadian - I had too!)

She actually ROCKED so it was easy to support such a fine looking girl.

???

When she found out that in fact, she had to pay all the bills from the night'..
...being the bride to BE, I think that is MOST appropriate.

Later on in the night when things were getting ugly...for me!

This picture pretty much sums up HOW I feel.

A GREAT NIGHT HAD BY ALL

(hopefully)

wink - wink

Running in Dhaka is Interesting - watch out for Disappearing ROADS!

Running in Dhaka is just weird.

Period.

Of course it's hot, busy and sometimes frustrating

BUT 

it's also just plain weird because nothing is consistent.

Example?

Great road, built up, paved and has drains - WOW!

Sidewalks may need some work but COME ON this is fabulous!

Not more than 700 meters later, SAME ROAD everything disappears...

Roads are not paved, sidewalks are suddenly non-existent...

WEIRD!!!

Well, at least it keeps things interesting?

;-)

Why are librarians so KOOL?

The last couple of days I have been sick.

Let's just say sick from the waist down - that's all you need to know.

The darling little librarian at our school gave me some great advice 

the day I was sick...I wanted to share.

(Her name is Lezlie but it should be LEZLIE THE GREAT!)

*IMP NOTE: Why are librarians always so small, cute, put together,

 wicked smart 

but STRICT like no other?

Never seen someone change from a serious "Shhh face" to beaming

 "Let's read a book children face"

CREEPY TALENT.

ANWAYS - BACK TO THE STORY:

Lezlie gave me some brilliant advice/insight  that I wanted to share.

(don't worry, I asked her already if I could quote her)

When I told her I wasn't at school because I 

was having an intimate relationship with my toilet, her response was...

"An intimate relationship with your toilet might be just the kind of relationship you've 

been waiting for. Think about it - 

it's always there for you, sturdy and strong, 

it takes all your sh#t but doesn't give any back, 

and most of all, 

it forgives and forgets with just a simple flush. 

Perfect partner, really...."

You heard it here folks.

AMAZING insight and advice - FOR FREE!

When is the last time you talked to your local Librarian?

I suggest you do.

Especially when you are sick.

They could very well make your day - BOOM!

(Lezlie - you made my day)

;-)

p.s.

This lovely lady and her husband are moving away and opening a business together

and all I want to say to that is 

GOOD LUCK YOU TWO

(freaking adorable couple - wish they didn't have to go)

Alright, this is too cute! Too much love in the air.

(have a little vomit in my mouth - bahahahhaha!)