I am commemorating my 1st year in Mozambique by stealing Brenna’s list idea:
A Year in Numbers:
-12 Months in Mozambique
- 25 books read
- 6 beaches visited
- 12 packages received (thank you, they’ve been wonderful!)
- 8 pulgas found in my feet (8 too many)
- 3,618 tests corrected (and that is not an exaggeration)
- 10 days arrived at school NOT sweaty and disgusting
- 50 lessons given in Portuguese
- 4 times kitchen has been broken into
- 1 time peed over the side of a sail boat (not an easy task)
- Countless over the top texts received professing strangers’ love.

We finished with final exams this week. Here are some highlights of my favorite cheating methods:
-Notes on the hand
-Notes under a skirt or capulana
-Passing around scratch paper with answers
-The whole class waiting until the last second to turn in tests so that everyone can talk and copy when everyone turns them in at once
-Holding up the test in front of the face, to look over answers, allowing everyone behind to copy, like cheating dominos.
-Aaaand…my all time favorite… the fake snake scare. One kid yelled and jumped up and cried ‘snake,’ everyone freaked out and had a good 2 minutes of laughing and sharing answers before things got back to normal.