Friday, June 11- Last Day of School

Friday

Today was 2 hours of ‘school’ for primary school (K4-6th grade) from 8am to 10 am. The middle school stayed until noon. It worked out really well though because all the classes were able to have their end of the year parties, which included lots of eating and playing around. One of my kids forgot plates and spoons so we made due with napkins and forks for ice cream, cake, pizza, guacamole and tons of chips. We were all stuffed and on sugar highs. The last ten minutes I started saying bye to my kids, getting and giving hugs. My kids were giving my huge bear hugs and didn’t want to let go and crying. I didn’t cry; I was sad and emotional, but I didn’t cry. I think I’m one of those people that an experience like this often hits me later once I’ve processed things in my head and am reminded of my experience. At the end of the day I was smeared in the face with nacho cheese and frosting, which was a perfect fifth grade way to say goodbye I feel. Love those kids.

I stayed after for a while cleaning up my classroom, my desk and organizing everything so the administration didn’t have to do as much work. The middle school had been watching one of the World cup futbol games earlier in the day, so the big screen TV was still in the cafeteria when I ate lunch. I ended up watching some of the futbol game and then headed home with LB and Sarah. I finished packing at home, said goodbye to the girls (because I wouldn’t see them before they headed to the States) then left for Santa Rosa to begin my year end trip to Guatemala and Roatan. After Christmas, most of the girls had talked about traveling around Central America, but as the year came to a close, they decided to go home after school was finished. Therefore Tad and I decided to still go travel to Guatemala and Roatan for our year end vacation. Going to Santa Rosa on Friday night would save some time tomorrow going to Copan to catch a bus to Antigua; the less travel time I can do in a one day, the better. We stayed at this crappy hotel, but we could deal with it for one night. We got some great pizza for dinner and headed to bed early to be ready for our long travel day tomorrow to Antigua.