i am super sick, i have been since saturday morning when i woke up with a really bad sore throat. but today actually went better than i thought it would. i yelled at my really bad class first thing - told them about writing their names on the board and if i got to 3 warnings they were going to go talk to annie, our director (or principal). so they shut up for most of the time and listened to me after that.

so i thought it was bad being sick, but poor teresa (one of the teachers from new zealand) has it way worse. her water in her apartment has been shut off twice - the second time from friday til now. and there's a lot of damage in her place from the previous person who had a cat, and her apartment even smells like cat. it's super gross. poor girl. she's been really frustrated and i can't believe more hasn't been done. she's brought it up a lot and things aren't really getting anywhere. eek. 

anyways, sunday when i was at the cafe across the street working on planning for monday, this guy randomly came up to me and asked where i was from and if i would be his private english tutor. i told him i'm way too busy plus avalon doesn't allow that, but he kept pushing and said he wanted me to come have dinner with his family and teach his 2 kids too. he kept asking where i lived, but i just said a couple blocks over. it was creeping me out. he wrote his name & number down on a napkin in case i changed my mind. weird.