boogers...I mean burglers....

I post about all of the silly things that my esl students say and tonight was no exception. We were studying the repetition drill where they must memorize a sentence to correspond with the picture. One of my students had a picture that said "I grabbed a vase and struck the burgler on the head" but he said booger instead. I started to laugh and told them why. When you are in situations like that....you have to explain. There is no such thing as a poker face. I love my students. I have had a lot of fun so far and we are almost to the half way point. In other news, I went and saw our doctor that American English Center uses for my hip. He was a funny little man. I showed him the norco bottle and the lidocane patches and he said that he had to look the drug up. He looked it up and said okay...I know what it is. He prescribed an over the counter with a codene base and then told me to call him in a week. He told me that the hip/harvest site was inflamed and it could have an infection. He told me to take my temperature tonight and then he told me to take the pills. Infection? After all of the antibiotics that I was on for so long just two years ago? He said that if that did not work, that he would like to try steroid shots with a little lidocaine. Okay...whatever works. Prayers that it will get better on its own...:) The language is coming along but I learned Ukrainian and my language is too good for the beginning class and sketchy for the advanced since russian and ukranian are a little different. Technically I feel like I fall somewhere in the middle. I learn fast though so maybe I will go to all four lessons each week and brush up on vocab in one and sentence structure at the other one. Alot of people here have given up studying the language but I really feel like I need to be studying to be happy here and communicate with my friends. On a final, the move went well and I had some great friends who helped and then hung out for the night. I have some amazing Ukranian friends here. I am getting settled. The landlord is coming tomorrow so that we can get things fixed around here for ex. the lock to the front door and the shower. I have a list of stuff to buy that we need for the house on Friday (my day off). This week is packed. I also have a meeting with Yura on Friday. He is doing better but I still continue to pray for him. I so love that boy. Stay tuned....