Café Con Monica

Its Monday!!

Ooh I am so tired! I don’t know why the weekends go so quickly and the rest of the week drags on. Actually the week did go pretty quickly for me so I don’t know what I am whining about.


This weekend was a good one, although taking 3 days off working out took a toll. When I did my Zumba I thought I might die! 

Friday night a few of the other teachers and I headed to the new bar that opened up and had a ridiculous night. It was just one of those nights that were supposed to be a few drinks and turned into getting home at 4am. Actually that has happened the last two Fridays at this bar…I think there is something in the drinks there.

Saturday I spent laying around my apartment pretending I wasn’t hungover but really just wanting to curl into fetal position. Last Saturday was spent at a little Halloween party. Since I didn’t blog last week except Friday I have plenty pictures to share.

Here ya go!

Alvin from the Chipmunks 🙂 

prepping for Halloween 🙂 

Zombified 

Halloween party with the kiddies 

care package from my parents…right in time! All my fave latin food products! 

Yes I do work with these guys 

Almost died when I saw this picture 

trick or treating with the kids 

a pretty princess! 

pumpkins! 

Soo many more but that is good for now! Can’t wait to catch up on everyones posts!!! 

Friday Rambles…

I have all kinds of things in my head today so here we go: 


{1}

Being in a long distance relationship is hard. Before I left I knew it would be hard but its harder than I thought. I am already fighting homesickness but not seeing your boyfriend for 4 months and having to have conversations that should be had in person by Skype or text sucks. Not to mention the conversation where you finally realize you may not see each other until July of next year. We both thought we would see each other in between sometime but its just financially feasible for me and most likely not for him. Its hard to decide if I want to use my month long holiday in January and only get to go home(because its that expensive) or stay in SE Asia and travel to 3-4 countries for less than I would pay for a flight home. I  miss him but this is not an opportunity that rises everyday. Then there is the fact that I was supposed to be home in March….until I took the job in China which keeps me here till July. Yea…no one was happy when I dropped that bomb. Anyway…the point was that it is hard. Much much harder to deal with then I thought it would be.  


{2}
Fall TV is killing it this year! I am seriously loving all the shows. Its a good thing there is nothing to do with my evenings because I have way too many shows to keep up with. I can’t believe I just typed that. Eeeek! 
My faves: Greys! Of course
Vampire Diaries
Dexter
Once Upon a Time
The Voice-OMG this seasons battles are seriously amazing!! 
Hart of Dixie
New Girl
HIMYM
Scandal
Bones
I am sure there is more…I’m trying not to look crazy. 
Thank goodness for HULU & online streaming! 

{3} 
My Chinese co-teacher seems to think I don’t dress nice enough: 
Her: You dont like shopping? 
Me: Yes, I do why? 
Her: Well you wear the same clothes every week
Me: Well…I couldn’t pack alot of clothes and I packed for a different place
Her: Yea but you can buy more 
Me: They don’t sell pants my size here
Her: Oh yea thats true. Well maybe you can get smaller or just have your family send you clothes, they don’t make them here for girls like you. 
Ouch. Thank you for making my already bad body image issues in this country even worse. I’ve been working on losing weight but being an country where 1 in every 50-75 people is over a size 2 can start to wear on you. I just want to buy some pants that aren’t sweatpants!!! 

{4} 
For the last few weeks i’ve had this cough. It doesn’t hurt and I feel fine but it won’t go away. Turns out I am having trouble with the pollution. Yay me!!! 


{5} 
The foreign teachers are going to be doing a play for the schools 10th anniversary. Guess who is the mirror? That’s right. I get to tell that Queen she isn’t the fairest of them all! 

{6} 
We started having kids take books home this week. They are all in Chinese but I found this one…can you guess what its about?? 
OOh and yes I do teach Kindergarten age kids. 



{7} 
I have been doing so good with the workout schedule, I am so excited for myself. I am sore all over for the first time in a long time  but I am loving it because I know it means i’m working my ass off…literally! 

{8} 
There is some childish HS type girl drama going on here. When I first got here we met a girl that used to work at my school and she had bad bad things to say about everyone. Well I met the other people and they are all pretty nice. A bit different in their own way but not bad to me so I don’t care. Well…lets just say its nothing but drama having to decide who to be friends with without risking ending up friendless for the next year because I might piss off a person with a big ass mouth. 

{9} 
I am thinking of changing my blog name. I like the one I have but sometimes I think I might want to change it up around here. January will make 2 years I have been blogging and I think some changes are in order 🙂 

{10} 
I am loving Skyping with my family in their mornings my evenings. I get to talk to my nephew,sister & parents and watch everyone get ready for work and have breakfast together. It makes me so happy that my nephew gets excited to talk to me and doesn’t want anyone to move the ipad so he can’t see me! 


Yikes! I am not sure how this ended up being 10 things. 
Since this post was so pictureless I leave you with this: 

Thanks for sticking around! I guess I had a lot to say today! hope you all have a fantastic weekend 🙂 







Testing Testing…& a blog hop!

It seems there has been a problem seeing the pictures I am posting on my blog lately. I think this is because I have been using a proxy since Blogger & Facebook are blocked in China. I am going to try again at home using my VPN and hope like hell it works. If you are unable to see the pictures below please let me know 🙂 

In other news! Happy Friday!!! 
I’m linking up for this fun blog hop. Over the last few weeks I have found some awesome blogs using these hops!

I spent all of yesterday in my bed sick. I swear I really don’t get sick that often but the last 3 months I have been sick at least 4-5 times. I forgot how it goes working with kids. I need to get some more vitamins and some sleep that might help my immune system out. Or according to the chinese foreign teachers I need to drink room temperature water and chinese tea and then I won’t get sick. Yep. I hear this all the time. 

Anyway I am off next week and so glad for it but that means I work tomorrow. Yikes my first day of work on a Saturday in YEARS! I hope the kids are tired too so we can be lazy bums all day. 

Hope you all have a fantastic weekend! 


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