Dear Blog,



Early this morning, before Juan walked Monty, I kept having dreams that he was peeing on me (Monty, not Juan). As you might have guessed, Monty gets the royal treatment and gets to sleep on the bed. He's never actually peed during the night, but it is still a recurring nightmare that I have. So, that was how my day began this morning.



After I finally got up and got dressed, I headed to work. Juan and I fought traffic and an empty tank of gas, but we made it on time. Every morning, we listen to a radio show called "Hoy por hoy." It is basically a Mexican news channel.



After I got to work, I prepared for my day. On Tuesdays and Thursdays, I like to work one-on-one with the children and see how much they know. While I am working with one child, the other children draw or play a game or read a book or something. That is pretty much what I did at work.



Right now, it is raining in Mexico City. I am watching breaking news coverage of the financial crisis in the U.S. It seems like a real mess. Monty lost another tooth. He is starting to remind me of a toothless child that was in my kindergarten class when I was student teaching. I remember vividly when this poor child tried to bite into an apple and his gums just slid right across the surface of the apple. He gave me a pathetic look and said, "I can't." Well, Monty has lost 6 teeth now and has a little difficulty eating his hard food. I am sure that if he could talk, he would say, "I can't."



I think I will flip through all the cable channels now. I gotta get a feel for the programming down here.



Toodles,

Jenny en la ciudad