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| Alligator found outside the school compound |
When we got here, Sarah was told that she would be teaching science even though she majored in math and has not taken a science class since high school. She had to teach year 10 and 11 physics but one of the regional educators heard about the situation and decided it would be best if I taught the 11th grade physics as her daughter is in that class.hmmm
The next week flew by, which is funny because the previous week dragged so much. I had some good classes and some not so good classes. I have a few students in my base class that are now obsessed with me. Every time they see me in the hallway they yell my name and ask me a whole bunch of personal questions. One girl keeps bringing me mangos from her mango tree... I do not complain as they are delicious. I have had a lot of students ask me age, they are shocked when I say 22 because most think I'm around 30. LOL.
Sarah and I found a 2 week old kitten in the staff room this week. We have been feeding him with an eye dropper and keeping him in a box in our kitchen. His name is Basil and he is so cute! He is getting bigger, along with his mewing lol.
Sports a couple weeks ago, and all the teachers and students had been placed into houses, I was blue, which is cool as I was blue at John Mason (my UK school). Unfortunately there are teachers races, and all the teachers in my house seem to think I'm a good runner. I requested that I run a longer distance than a sprint, I have never been a good sprinter. We had field events on Thursday and we were supposed to have track events on Friday, but seeing as it down poured on Thursday night the field flooded. Instead we had a fun morning of playing heads up seven up with my base class. We went outside in the afternoon for some of the novelty events such as the three legged race, the balloon toss, and the lime and spoon race. All these events were for students and teachers. Sarah and I came joint last on the lime and spoon race, and then Nigel and I came second to last on the balloon toss. Nigel threw the balloon too hard and it burst right into my crotch lol. It was a shock but it felt good as it was so hot... also the students loved that I got completely soaked.
It was Essequibo night a couple of weekends ago. They basically have a big party with lots of music and dancing. We were going to go Friday night but the ground was still a little flooded so we stayed at home and watched movies.We went on Saturday night and drank a lot of beer and had a good time with a couple of the peace corps volunteers.
I will write more soon, but I gots some lessons to plan. Enjoy the pictures (stolen from Nigel)
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| Covered area of the school during an assembly |
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| Anna Regina Multilateral School |
-peace out
