just another week

this week went well. my kids are still all really good (most of them). the ones that are a little difficult aren't even that bad. one of my smaller kids ate half an eraser the other day. the same day one of my older kids up at the middle school level cut herself by accident right after class and was bleeding all over. i grabbed the first aid kit and rushed her to the bathroom. unfortunately, there weren't band-aids, so i made her wrap it in 5 paper towels...it ended up being a small cut (which is strange, considering the amount of blood i saw), but they should never allow kids to have exact-o knives in school.

yesterday we went to a fortress located close to the city. it's surrounding a mountain and we never really figured out the purpose of it. none of the tourist sites give any information other than how long it is (4.2 km long) and how old it is (1596). it doesn't even surround the city, it just surrounds a mountain. we walked one of the trials and ended up in a small village with a ton of little restaurants, but we didn't eat there because we had plans to get together with more of the teachers in a different area of the city.