Nice Boys

Today I received an e-mail from Carrie.  She was telling me about something else but at the end of it she wrote the following: 

On a totally unrelated note....... it came up in conversation today that you and Cameron would only be here for another 10 months. Ryley immediately blurted out, "Can Cameron stay?". Tobias immediately followed with, "Yeah, he can stay with us during the day and go home to Todd at night." They've got it all figured out! I guess he'll have to stay.

They are the sweetest boys.  It is really going to be difficult to leave these friends we have made here.  I'm really not looking forward to that part of leaving.  Brings tears to my eyes already.


I went with Ileana to see George the Tailor.  We need to have outfits for an 80's party we are going to on the 22nd of Sept.  We both are getting the same kind of outfit...think Flashdance.  She picked out some pink material and mine is a bright lime green.  We met with George to discuss what we needed.  He was pretty confused.  He took a picture of what we want it to look like and made Ileana draw it.  First he measured tiny little Ileana.  When it was my turn he said "How tall are you?"  I said "5'9."  He didn't know what that meant and I didn't know what it was in cm.  I got out my phone to use my converter.  As I was looking it up he started trying to use a too short tape measure to measure me.  I finally said "179 cm".  He looked up at me with a look of 'are you serious' and repeated it.  He looked me up and down and said "You are tall".  No duh.  Especially since he isn't much taller than Ileana.  I said "I'm a giant."  He laughed.  He took my measurements and then told us they would be done on the 10th.  I can't wait to see how they turn out.  Our next mission is to find accessories. 

Sharla is back in town.  Woo Hoo.  We met at 12:45 out front of our apartment to walk over to Ashanti for lunch.  There was another group of girls there so we chatted with them for awhile.  Finally ordered lunch.  I had the best BBQ beef quesadillas.  Anthony of course fed us drinks and didn't make us pay for them.  Mr. Xue picked me up there at 2:45 to go to school.  Sharla stayed chatting with Anthony.

I got to school and I went to pick Alejandro up from his teacher because he was going home with us.  It was one of the Chinese aides.  I told her I was there for Ale and she said "Oh, are you his grandmother?"  I said "Excuse me?"  She repeated it and I said no.  The other aide came out and said dad didn't say who was picking Ale up today so I said I was.  The first aide again asked if I was his grandmother.  I said "NO, I am his neighbor and he is going with me".  They said ok.  I now know Ileana needs to send an email if I am picking him up again.  I really wanted to answer "Yes, I am Alejandro's 42 year old WHITE grandmother."  Funny.

Grabbed Cameron and we all headed home.  Alejandro got to play with Cameron for a little bit so he was excited.  Ale went home and Cameron played with the other boys.  Dinner, read, watched FRED on Nick, then off to bed.