Sunday, 13 July 2008
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Last Week of School, Monday July 14th
It's true - this is our last week of school - we made it! Well, sort of, as even though the semester will finish this week our summer will be filled with various English camps until we depart for home in August. They are called "camps" but are not near as fun as the ones you may remember from childhood. There are no wooded cabins, marshmallow roasts or even overnight stays. Actually, camp is a just a fancy word for summer school. The students come to the school and we conduct classes just as we did during the regular school year.
The best news of the week was that on Saturday morning we got air conditioning!!!! This was a huge answer to prayer as we had been spending our days sweating, going to bed sweating, sleeping fitfully and waking up drenched. We were averaging 3 very cold showers a day. Actually, prior to the A/C installation we purchased a train ticket everyday to go anywhere (as there was a/c on the train) and caught the movie Hancock on Monday and treated ourselves to some American food on Tuesday. We joined our fellow English teachers at a restaurant on Wednesday evening to bid goodbye to the English class for teacher's. We lingered around even after the last piece of fish had been plucked from the bones to enjoy the cool air.
We find ourselves eating cereal for breakfast and dinner many days so Brad has been making regular trips to the market to pick up milk. The last time he was there he wasn't fast enough and a drunk toothless man grabbed his bottom. What an experience....:)
We had several teachers over for dinner on Friday evening and enjoyed chopped salads together. Despite the heat it was a great time with lots of laughter and fun. And on Sunday afternoon we were invited over to another teacher's house to enjoy a delicious meal and then took a hike to a local waterfall. All in all a great weekend!
Chopped salads with fellow teachers
Sunday excursion
Their very friendly dog!
Our hike to the waterfall
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