Rebecca can't think of a title for this entry.

The next time she asks, please tell Grandma that both her packages have arrived. Her box with the dental floss came last week, and the one with the pictures and magazines came this morning. Eva looks so tall in the pictures! She must have grown a lot since I left. And I never thought it would feel so good to read a magazine with Britney Spears on the cover, but I’ve missed that kind of trashy, supermarket check-out aisle stuff. Nakeisha got hold of it during dinner (and she liked it so much that I thought I would never get it back) and read parts to Marlene and me. And I think just about anything, even Mr. Potter, the world’s most boring book, would sound interesting if Nakeisha read it. "Kiefer Sutherland – oh, who cares? What’s this girl they’re talking about, Rebecca Rom – Rebecca Romidgin? Who is that? Oh, look, there’s Johnny Depp. What do they say about Johnny Depp?"

Today I had a grand total of two students show up for one of my classes. The school was having a baccalaureate mock exam, so I expected some of them to be absent but not 70% of the class. But the two who actually showed up were good students, so we did most of the lesson I had planned and I let them go early.