Rain, rain, go away!!!!

Today it has done nothing but rain, it started waking me in the middle of the night and its still raining now. It doesnt do a very good job of cleaning the streets because most people here tend to dump everything outside their gates with this sort of out of sight out of mind philosophy. Of course when this crap gets washed up outside their gates again they are usually the first to complain about it. Sad init? Unfortunately in my part of Planaltina this happens every day but even in the richer parts they do this, as you can imagine on a hot day it makes the place smell just a little of decaying food and stuff. It doesnt help when people leave their dogs to roam the streets all night long ripping open all of the garbage bags so their owners dont have to spend money on feeding them. I dont think these problems are down to lack of education or anything like that, just that people dont give a shit!!

This morning i spent a few hours creating some stuff to do with my Taguatinga students, they are alot of fun and this weekend i took a few clips for them to watch just to do something a little different :-). I want to have a few simple activities that we can just spend a few minutes on or some vocabulary that i can just get the secretaries at the school to print out for me just to give them a break from always studying methodology all of the time. I must get around to taking a few photos and uploading them so everyone can see my wonderful students :-) One of my students from last semester (Yes, thats you Camilla hahaha!!!!!) has some photos of me with my old group so i will try to get a copy of them so i can post them here for you all to see.. I am hoping that my brother will send me some from the UK as well. Just have to wait and see okay: :-)

I have to go and do some clearing up at the little house i am going to move into this afternoon. I want to bag up some of the grass and weeds and stuff that i cleared last weekend so i'll just fill a few bags ready to go to the garbage people on Monday morning. I want to be moved in by the end of this month if i can, Roberta should be back here by next week so i will see if she wants to go help me to pick some new stuff for my place :-) I think that she returns from Sao Paulo today but im not sure as i havent got a message from her just yet. Probably ran out of credit for her cell phone as they are very expensive here. I'm sure she will call me as soon as she arrives here :-)

I guess i had better go write some emails and get off to clear my garden stuff up, well thats if the rain holds up for a while to let me get some of it done lol