End of August - really?!

I can't believe it's already the last saturday in August. When I first got here, each day seemed to take a week and now each week feels like a day! Has the summer passed this quickly for all of you?! :)
Well, this past week was very busy. We had our school's 15th anniversary concert on Wednesday night. On Monday and Tuesday night we had to attend the practice for the event. Monday we had a briefing on the duties of the ushers (I was one of them) and on Tuesday the students (except KG and Playgroup, thankfully) came to see the rehearsal.
Thankfully we had no school on Tuesday and Wednesday since we had to attend the practices and the concert.
Wednesday morning I went with Glyne (one of my housemates) and her Indonesian friend to a place where we were supposed to go boating. Unfortunately, it is only open on the weekends, so we are going to try and go tomorrow. Anyways, since we couldn't do that, we decided to go to the zoo. Everyone told us not to go, but we wanted to see for ourselves. And actually, it was better than I expected. My favorite part was when a camel put his mouth on Glyne's shoulder when she was posing for a picture. :) Although, she probably didn't like that so much.
After the zoo, I went right away to the hair salon to get my hair and make-up done for the concert. (I was one of the ushers dressed in traditional Indonesian clothes, and the school paid for us to get our hair and make-up done.) It looked kind of strange when I was finished. My face was very white and my eye make-up was very dark. You can look at the pictures on facebook.
After a late night, it was difficult to teach on Thursday. I started my first class at 8 a.m. and thought, "wow, i have no energy." God gave me the strength to get through my 6 classes that day.
That evening I went with Glyne and Lydia again to Mirota (the souvenir store I visited earlier with Ayu). If any of you come to visit me here, you have to go there! After shopping we went to the food festival, an outdoor group of restaurants only opened at night.
Yesterday was a relief knowing the weekend was coming and that I could relax. Unfortunately, some of my students must have been in weekend mode too, because they had a difficult time listening. After class, one of the teachers brought some students downstairs to apologize to me. It was sweet, but I felt bad at the same time.
Last night I went to Gotri (the cheap restaurant nearby, but with good food and ac!) with Fei. Then we looked at each others' pictures. She kept exclaiming over my pictures of New York City, and I enjoyed her pictures of pandas.
Today I just went to Bible study and had lunch afterwards with the group leader, her daughter, and her mother-in-law. (She has been taking me to and from the Bible study since she lives nearby.)
I am enjoying right now sitting at home and resting! Well, until next time...