Finally got my hair cut

I have not had a haircut for 8 months, and finally I went today and got it cut because it was driving me nuts! Turns out that one of the reasons why it has been looking so bad is that the top layer of my hair grows faster than the bottom layers. I was very nervous to get it cut considering some of the butch jobs I've had in the past 2 years, but when I got in and sat down and expressed my concerns, the lady started speaking my language and I knew I had found a kindred hair spirit! One of my biggest frustrations is the fact that I've had good layers and I've had horrible layers, and I never seem to know what I'm going to get! Apparently, there are different ways to do layers, but a lot of people just cut layers all the same way, no matter what kind of hair you have. It seems to me that I've been getting the wrong kind of layers for a while. And I think the stylists kept cutting those layers just because that's the way they were. I'm so happy with the way it has turned out! I can tell from the way that it's drying that it's going to be a GOOD haircut.

In other news, teaching is going well. It's definitely a challenge. The biggest challenge is getting all the kids to be quiet so I can get done what I need to do during class. It's fun to torture the kids with consequences though. I don't arbitrarily assign consequences of course, but when they deserve it, they get it!! Yesterday they were being really loud in homeroom at the end of the day while waiting for bus call, so when they announced the buses I made the kids wait for a minute and then walk slowly behind me out to the buses. The were chomping at the bit to get out of school ha ha ha. It was funny. Sometimes the kids can be really sweet, but a lot of the time we just call them our little monsters.

Yesterday was my roommate's birthday, and so as a birthday present to her I got up a little early and made breakfast for her. I was going to do the whole pancake, eggs and sausage thing, but then I thought maybe it would be nice to do something different so I decided to make crepes instead! My last year that I was in Utah my roomates made crepes for me on my birthday. It was the first time I'd had crepes and I just fell in love with them. Actually, they have something similar in Ukraine. Russian pancakes are pretty much identical to crepes, although they put very different things in them. In Ukraine and Russia you put meat and mushrooms, cheese, cabbage and anything you want inside a crepe. They even make ones with bananas and chocolate syrup. I used to love getting crepes over there ... mmmmmm ... I once thought of opening a similar restaurant which had the same basic concept--well, not a restaurant, but more like a little stand. I still think it would be fun, but there seems to not be nearly enough time in this life to do everything we want. Or maybe I'm just really bad at organizing my time ...