Fire Station Field Trip

On Friday we took the kindergartners on a field trip to the local fire station.  They got to learn about about what to do in a fire, look at the fire trucks, try on the fire fighter coat and even have a fire drill with smoke.  Going through the smoke was quite traumatic for one of my young students who became terrified and started sobbing before we even did it.  She wanted nothing to do with the rest of the field trip after that, burying her head in my shoulder the rest of the time.  But don't worry she was back to normal after we got back to school!

 Tommy and a fire truck

 Fire fighter David

 Eric Teacher with his group of boys: David, Mike, Alvin, Jerry, Johnny, and Alex

Our weekend has not been overly exciting once again.  We realized it has been quite a while since we took many pictures to share and decided we need to make it our mission to go somewhere exciting very soon so we have pictures to share!  The weather is finally becoming very pleasant so going out somewhere will be much more likely to happen now!  It's still humid but has cooled down so much during the day and especially in the evenings.  Typhoon season is not over yet, however, and it looks like we will be getting a whole lot of rain and maybe some wind tonight and tomorrow from Typhoon Sanba.  This weekend has been filled with some more household things like cleaning and a trip to Costco.  Trips to Costco can be quite eventful if you buy a lot of stuff or buy some big stuff.  One of the other teachers went with us and was going to carry a crockpot and a flat of energy drinks from the subway station to her apartment.  Our bags were rather heavy too but we all decided the subway was probably a much better option than a taxi on a late Saturday afternoon.  I am still trying to get used to the fact that I can only do one load of laundry a day instead of all of the laundry on one day, due to very limited drying space.  I have learned that bike seats and handlebars make for a good couple extra drying spaces when the drying rack isn't big enough.  We promise we will have some new pictures to share soon!