The administration had decided yesterday to only have a half day, so the kids would leave at 1pm. We had class half of the day with a spelling test, math and language and then the other half of the day we had a party. The kids brought food in, all junk like cake, ice cream, chips, popcorn and we sat around and ate for a bit. Then we played BINGO, but with SANTA instead and other kids played Monopoly or Uno. Then it was lunch, but not many kids wanted to eat because they were so full of candy. I had bought candy for them and put them in green cups as their present from me; what’s a little more sugar? When the bell finally rang, all the kids were like ‘Woohoo, vacation!’ I was feeling the exact same way. They were all really sweet though saying bye and Merry Christmas and they’ll miss me. I’ll miss them too, but it will be nice to take a break from teaching and classroom management for a few weeks! Now that today is finally here, I can’t believe I’ve been here for 4 months already…almost halfway which is crazy because I can remember so clearly the day I left in August for Honduras. I’ve accomplished so much already, seen some of the country, and learned how to be a teacher! Hopefully I can rejuvenate over vacation with family and friends and come back refreshed with new ideas, new motivation and determination to continue to do my best at my job. It’ll be very weird though to be without my fellow American teachers for 2 weeks! We’re each others co-workers, housemates and friends here, so to not be with them or do things with them for 2 weeks will be odd.
We had dinner at the comedor for our last evening and when we asked how much it was, Dona was like ‘Nada, para Navidad’ and we were so humbled! I mean again, these people have little and yet they are so generous with what they have. One of my kids parents called me as well and was such a huge blessing to us. They own a transporation business with passenger vans and had to go to San Pedro on Friday as well. So they offered us a ride, as long as we didn’t mind sitting on the floor! Until you ride the buses here you have no idea how great this was for us! Riding the buses was one of the last unpleasant things to deal with going home and now it’s taken care of as well! We only had to pay her gas money if we wanted, too! Needless to say we are even more stoked about going home now.
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