Fin SEP

I'm so sad that SEP is over! It was a great 5 weeks and the girls were wonderful. This last day lacked a sense of finality so I feel as though I'm going to head back to work on Monday. However it will actually be a year before I see the girls again, and even then only half of them will be returning. How sad!!!

There was a carnival today to celebrate the completion of the program - my booth was icecream making, which was pretty interesting. (btw, here's the recipe: 1 cup milk, 1 tbsp sugar, and 1 tsp vanilla or other flavoring inside the little bag. Seal the little bag, fill the larger bag with 4 cups of ice and 1 cup of rock salt, and put the smaller bag in on top. Seal the larger bag, and then mush around the contents until the icecream's consistency thickens. Suggested alteration: OMIT SALT) Yeah. You can guess what happened. The smaller bag leaked, and so salt got in, preventing the icecream from solidifying, and giving it a wretched, salty flavor... Waaah! The girls were so nice about it, though. They all pretended to like it, and those who threw it out did so where I couldn't see. A few girls' icecream turned out well, though! That was the highlight of my day :)

I got a pretty new skirt!! It's so completely gorgeous! It's a perfect Italian skirt. Now I just need to get some new pairs of pants - SYA asks its students not to bring ratty clothes, and ALL of my pants are old blue jeans that are raggedy and torn. Yay, an excuse to go shopping!