Monday, 31 January 2005
The day flew by today. Can't believe it's nearly February already. Highlights of the day:
* Game's 9th birthday was today - His dad brought KFC buckets of chicken and a decadent coffee ice cream cake from Swensen's for a 3:30 pm treat for all of us.
* Phu ate like there is no tomorrow, then tried to pull his classic whining/crying manipulation to get the empty bucket (yet he turned it off like a water faucet in a second when we told him to go outside if he was going to cry). Besides, it's not YOUR birthday....Our precocious student Mon later wrote a cute message on the board in English telling Game thank you for the chicken and cake and depicting us talking to Phu.
* Creativity followed with Mint making a cape with the empty cake box. Little did we know once again birthday party garbage can create hours of entertainment, more than the party itself.
* The kids proceeded to marvel at the dried ice (used to keep the ice cream cake cool) in the bowl for nearly 20 minutes, then gathered around to sing "Happy Birthday" (to the bowl, not to Game) and blow out the smoke it emitted at the end. They thoroughly enjoyed this activity, as they sang the song 4 times (again, to the bowl, not to Game).
* The kids decorated themselves as robots with the empty boxes and cardboard pieces. Meanwhile, others cut up pieces of future board (plastic boards we use for bulletin boards) to create blue robots, and Game wanted to take the chicken buckets home for drums.
* Came home after 8 pm to peer in the kitchen and see a rat eating the cheese I left him in the glue trap! After running and screaming to Christy, Paint, P'Charn, anyone I could find, not in vicinity of the rat, P'Charn disposed of the rat (telling us that he hit it first before dumping it to make sure it was dead).
Good thing we ate the late birthday snack because neither Christy nor I wanted to touch any of the dishes or food in the kitchen after actually seeing a rat with my own eyes in there!
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Yikes! Not a mouse but a rat!! And alive when you found it on the trap? I would not have ben able to eat either.
I would probably throw every single piece of food in my house, packaged or not, into the garbage. This experience certainly tops Sharon finding 2 dead mice on a glue trap in the corner under the heater in the classroom. It was overturned and kinda looked like one of the cardboard lunch containers the kids get from the lunchroom. She turned it over and SURPRISE! two furry mice.
Not sure if it was a rat or a mouse, because I ran away so fast flailing my arms and screaming. Soon thereafter, Christy and I both retreated into my room upstairs and closed the door as 5 people got rid of the wretched thing...only to laugh at us later of course for running upstairs! They later told us, don't worry, the mother and father will come back to visit you! I sure do hope not!!!
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