There isn't too much to tell...

but I will tell you this...

This evening when we were at the grocery store, I was looking at the frozen vegetables, when Joel decided to look at the frozen meat- even though we were at the grocery store where we never buy meat (mostly because the electricity goes out often, and the items in the frozen section thaw and refreeze repeatedly). When I was done looking at the veggies, I walked over to Joel to continue our shopping, and he smiled at me in a way that showed he knew something that maybe he shouldn't share with me. But then, he just picked up this one bag and said, "Look."

Now, I knew it was going to be meat, but it was a big bag. My first thought was that it was one of those whole pig legs that you can buy in Spain and probably elsewhere. But no, oh no. I looked closer. It was not just a pig leg. It was a whole pig. There was the head, the legs, the body, the whole, whole thing. We didn't check the price. We should have.

Oh, also, I don't think I have shared that I finally got my posting for next school year. I have been told that I will be teaching year 2, which is known elsewhere in the world as grade 1. We're talking 6 year olds turning 7 during the school year. I am excited for that. Of course, it will be a new challenge, seeing as it's a new grade for me- but, it will be more like what I am used to than what I'm doing this year- that is, I will have a normal amount of students (20-22), and I will have my own classroom. And therefore, it will be good.

Joel has had his cast off for a week or two now, and is healing well. His hand looks a little mangled still- his pinky finger is fat, and doesn't really bend right, or, more so, it bends out in a funny way that it seems it shouldn't. But, the good thing is that he's gone surfing once and played soccer once since getting it off, and he can almost cut his own dinner up. :)

Oh, and, last weekend, I hit another milestone in my running. I ran 10k on Saturday in an hour and fifteen. I desperately need new running shoes (which I know because of the foot pain that I get when I do my long runs, or too frequent runs), even though I got new ones in Melbourne at Christmas. It's less than a month til we go Zambia, and then we'll have those two all important days in South Africa to buy up all the things we can't get here. And new running shoes are already on that list!

Oh, and finally, if all goes according to plan, on Saturday, I will finally have what will hopefully be the first of many massages! We'll see how it goes, but, if I like her, I am totally going to make it a weekly thing, no questions. :)

And now, just for kicks, this is the picture I have as my desktop background right now. It just makes me happy. :)