Apple for the Teacher

Unfortunately, none of my students bring me apples. That seems to be strictly an American concept. But USA donuts is right next door, and that makes up for it somehow...
Two of the three students in my first class are transferring to morning classes, as Cambodians are apt to do. I have no idea why they do this, but I think it has to do with being able to teach more students in one day if you have two school sessions. Anyway, I'll be left with just one girl. I think we'll do a lot of movie watching and..."field trips" as the mall is three blocks away. We'll write it off as educational somehow.
It poured down rain on Tuesday. It's April, meaning that it's not supposed to rain at all. But it did, so I drove my little mo-ped home in the monsoon. I was lucky in that I had a poncho in the storage compartment of my bike that I bought about a week ago on a cloudy day, so while my schoolbooks didn't get soaked, I still arrived home looking rather a lot like a drowned rat. (And trust me, drowned rats are not attractive.)
We're talking about AIDS and HIV in my first class. There's a whole unit on it in our book, which I think is awesome. It's been...enlightening to say the least. The people here feel no sympathy for AIDS patients. One of my students said that if he got AIDS he would go sleep with all the prostitutes in Cambodia before he died, so that he would infect them too and kill them all. I was rather appalled by this attitude, and hopefully will be able to change it a bit.
I think I had thought up something rather witty to say, but now can't remember what it was...oh well.
My online class is coming to a close. I'm not just real upset about it, altho I wish my grade were better. Hopefully I'll be able to take a Psychology class online this summer and then all my gen-eds will be out of the way.
I have a day off from school today, so I went shopping and had a piece of apple pie and some coffee at a local shop. And let me tell ya, their apple pie is to die for. And it was fresh from the oven today.
Thank you Abba for vacation days.
We've got another 3-day break in March and we're hoping to get to go to the beach, which I'm REALLY excited about. A whole week without dress pants! Whoot! I'll let you know how that goes.

Love and peace or else,
~C