Mas en el Colegio...y Mas Gatos

For those of you on Facebook, most of this is a duplicate of what I've posted there.  But I wanted to share with those of you who aren't.

So, I gave my kids my camera to take pictures while we worked on our Father's Day gifts.
This is what turned out...

"Que cosquillas!" ("That tickles!")
But what great smiles :)

Hey, they got a good one of me!

There's like 6 pictures of him on my camera.
It makes me laugh out loud every time I look
through his series of shots!

This is the field where the big kids have gym class.  To get to it you have to leave the school, walk through a parking lot, go down a hill, then through a gate.

"Me and My Dinosaur"
this 6 year old girl can draw better than I can

And more cats...

This is how I washed dishes one week.



Last week we got to set up a pila
 (like a sink) all by ourselves.



Azucena attaching the legs.



"I see what you're doing there..."



I love getting to wash dishes here.
It's the only time all week I win the never-ending
battle to keep my nails clean.



This last month has been dragging on and I'm ready for a few months at home. 
Yesterday I went to get cheesecake and a coffee, but when I saw Apple Pie "in the style of an American grandmother", I didn't hesitate to change my mind. 
I prepared myself for disappointment.  Such high aspirations, but for sure no Guatemalteca could make American Apple Pie.  But a pleasant surprise... it was muy rico (or else I've just been away too long).
Oh, and I drink tea here.  Who would've guessed that?

En el Colegio

Some cute school stories to share from this week.

Conversation with one of my 2nd graders from ESL class:

     R:  Ms. Erin, Brittany is trying to kill Kevin.
     Me:  We don't have anyone named Kevin here.
     R:  (takes sunglasses off his head)  This is Kevin.
     Me:  Give me Kevin.

I asked one of my Kinder boys to run next door and ask Ms. Lisa for a spoon. 

     A:  What's a spoon?
     Me:  A "cuchara".  Spoon.
     A:  (walking out of the room)  Spoon, spoon, spoon, spoon...

And the highlight of our week...

     We had just started class, were singing our Good Morning song and seeing who got to school on time, when we heard a noise near the wall.  I thought that the high schoolers were moving something outside.  But then one of the square tiles comes crashing down and with it..

                              A Cat falls out of the ceiling!!

     I think the cat's more surprised than we were.  It dashes right for the door. 
    The kids could not stop talking about it.  One of my girls says "It's raining cats!" (so we got to talk about the English phrase "raining cats and dogs".  Just this time, literally.) 
     But God is watching out for the details.  I was just about to tell the kids to move over to that corner for Calendar and Devotions.  The cat would have dropped right onto a child's head.  And if my door had been closed (and I usually close it before we start class) it would have been stuck, panicked, in the room with the kids. 
     They then refused to do calendar or go in that corner for the rest of the day :)
     Everyday is a new adventure in Guatemala!

...Which is going to continue next year.  I turned in my contract yesterday.  I will be returing to school, and to Guatemala, for one more year.  They asked me to move to 1st grade and agreed to cap my class at 16 students.  So there will be two 1st grade teachers, and I will have many of the same students I have this year. 

Music Class and Mother's Day

From this:

To this:
Around the 2:50 mark, you will see Sam join the girls' group.  He had been sick so much during the practices that he didn't get to join a group.  Poor Sam didn't know what was going on, so he just followed the girls out.  I didn't know what was going to happen as there's no light green in the song!

I love the song that I found for them to sing.  Around 4:20.  So cute!

Are the videos working for you?  I had some trouble getting them to load.

And back to this :)

 

They did such a good job on their songs for the Mother's Day presentations!  I was so proud of them!  The mothers seemed to enjoy it, too.