Amphibians, Reptiles, and other coldblooded creatures

The word "frog" right now brings many thoughts to mind right now. In my science class, I am teaching about the five main types of vertebrates: Amphibians, Reptiles, Birds, Mammals, and Fish. I think about Amy, one of my students whose answer to the question "These type of animals have bones," was "frogs!" (I was looking for vertebrates there) And I think of semana santa last week when Amy's uncle David taught me the word for frog in Spanish "sapo". I told him I was positive that frog was "rana" and "sapo" must then be "toad," but we had no access to a dictionary utnil a few days later.

I finally got into my apartment on Sunday. I'm learning to deal with rather large cockroaches. Thank God for RAID, my new best friend, which prevents me from hearing that awful crunching sound when the cockroach meets its nemisis, Adidas. The size of these creatures are about as big as my first finger, sometimes as long as the "bird" finger, as Stephanie calls it. I think Im gaining ground though, I haven't seen one in my apartment for a whole day!

Teaching is going really well. I love my class, even though I often have to yell QUIET! I tell them that their butts need to kiss their seats. Oh yeh, Im a GREAT teacher. hah. That's all for now from this skim-milk drinking, warm-blooded mammal.