Payday!

Hooray, it was payday today. Except that nobody bothered to tell me that I have to show up at the accounting off ice to pick my pay up. I will be standing in front of the door tomorrow morning when the accounting office opens!

It wasn't a bad day today. We had two criers in the morning who finally calmed down when the parents left. We painted our owls brown today and we "washed" things at the water play table. The kids are already repeating phrases and colors. Sasha had a great time playing trucks. The weather was beautiful so we spent a lot of time outside.

So, they really interesting thing that struck me at school today is that kids are allowed to bring toy guns to school. I look over at the soccer field next to MY playground (I'll get into that in a minute.) and there's a machine gun and two pistols lying on the edge of the field. When the kid forgot his machine gun after the game, the teacher picked it up and brought it in for him.

As to the playgrounds, each nursery school group has its own playground. Another group had been assigned the same playground as we were. It turned out to be a great deal, because the kids played well together and we all practiced English. But we were told we weren't allowed to do it because the parents spend big bucks to send their kids to this private school and they (the parents) want each group to have its own playground. I'm not sure I see the logic in this or what it has to do about how much the school costs.

At 4, Tanya went with me to the shopping center to show me how to pay my bills at the automat. It's cool. You put in what company you're paying to, put in your ID, then just add cash. And then come back next month and do it again. We also bought a phone for me so I can make local calls and text for Uber. Would've been great, except that my phone's telling me the SIM card isn't connecting. Looks like I'll be headed back to the shopping center again tomorrow.

So, those were my adventures for today. Stay tuned for the weekend when I try to get my haircut!