Rain Day!

It took us an hour to get to school today because the streets were flooded! When the teacher van got to school, it was already the time when school was supposed to start but nobody was here! The police were turning all the cars around on the road and only letting buses through. Eventually by around 9:00, I had 14 of my 22 students, but that was the biggest elementary class that showed up. We combined with the 9 4th graders for 2 hours, and everyone was sent home at 11. More rain is expected, so we will see what will happen for conferences tomorrow!

Here are some pictures from our day...

Those of us lucky enough to ride in the teacher van didn't have to get out and walk in the rain after the taxis and cars were turned around

This is out the front window of the van...deep water!

Ok, so yesterday, I was telling everybody about this dream I had where there was a huge rain storm and nobody was allowed to leave the school...well it kind of came true!! All the kids were "blaming" me all day! A couple of them wrote this on the middle/high school message board upstairs! They said I'm not allowed to have any more dreams =)

This is all of the elementary school that showed up (about 1/2 of every class) so we had them all in the same room for chapel

3rd and 4th grade playing Heads Up 7 Up

Mad Libs! They always want to use my name in the silly stories...but they are learning parts of speech without even realizing it!! =)

Busy Busy Busy

We finished our whole first quarter! The first week of October was a week vacation for the kids, but we had professional development Monday-Wednesday. I made my first report cards with a bazillion subjects and skill sets I had to grade, not to mention comments too, had CEU meetings every day, and had to begin writing up the entire 3rd grade curriculum online as an update for the school. I didn't finish it, but I have until February when the school gets checked for that sort of thing. I also went to school 2 more times during the weekend staying until 6 one night and 7 another!

Now we have parent teacher conferences this Friday and Saturday, and then the weekend after that is the Teacher Retreat that got postponed when everyone was sick back in August. I like that it is later though because now I know everyone a lot better and I think it will be more fun. I have a few more pics of my students and other things going on here, so I'll post them as soon as I get a chance to breathe!

It is pouring rain right now and has been coming down since at least 3:00 today. (It is 8:45 now). We are into rainy season and the mosquitos are out! I have a ton of bites! The rainy season doesn't last too long though and I've been told that December has the most beautiful bright blue skies, puffy white clouds, and perfect weather.

Don't worry, I've been having some fun outside of school lately too! A bunch of us teachers went bowling in Chia recently, my roommates and I went to the touristy down-town area for an afternoon, and this weekend we are planning to have some fun carving the giant pumpkins down here and making every sort of edible thing we can think of with them (bread, soup, pie, etc).

Please pray for my 22 third graders

-for continued health (or healing in some cases)

-for learning obedience and self discipline

-for practicing acceptance and friendship

Thank you so much for continuing to join me in this! You are very important to the successes that God is allowing us here at ECA--

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