the daily essentials: sunglasses. hsm lunch box. my journal.
"in the shade of our school, we stay cool" -- LGS motto
the selections for queen. last year's queen leading the line.
my vote for this years queen: standard 1s queen nomination
the kids dancing. so great!!
then the teachers dancing-- bailando!
my pages for this ridiculous book strewn about the classroom
one of my gigantic pages
today was louisiana government school's 22nd birthday! kind of a tangent story... but what of my stories aren't tangent stories... when kids in belize sing happy birthday they just sing like this: happy birthday to you
happy birthday to you
happy birthday, happy birthday
happy birthday to you
how old are you now
how old are you now
how old are you now
how old are you now
you're --- years old now
you're --- years old now
happy birthday, happy birthday
happy birthday to you
there's no names mentioned. nothing. and at the end they clap to the number age you are turning.
in honor of the schools birthday we had an assembly this morning. now for most kids, you think ok, an assembly. long and boring but at least we get to be sitting in the gym in the air conditioning. wrong-o! these kids were number one, EXCITED to have an assembly and number two, had to stand up for the entire 2 and a half hours of it! insane! the school had a motto: "in the shade of our school, we stay cool". for assemblies the students come outside and stand where the school casts its shadow. kinda neat. and kinda crazy that the students don't complain too much about standing for the entire assembly. i remember being in school and being a little annoyed if i didn't have a good enough seat, let alone have to stand for the entirety.
what the assembly consisted of was the national anthem, prayer and the school pledge (kinda like the girl scouts "on my honor...") followed by some musical entertainment, the introduction of our queen nominees, more music and dancing, and then the general manager of all the government school-- who had come to wish us a happy birthday-- declared it a half day! yahoo! the introduction of our queen nominees from every level was hilarious. belizeans love their queens. they have a queen for just about everything. and the girls love going out for queen. they almost thrive on it. there will be many opportunities for me to show you this, seeing as there are about 8 holidays and parades while i'm going to be in belize. : ) yessss!
but back to the news about the half day. so i was pretty stoked to go home and not have to come back after lunch, but no. tomorrow we are having what they call a "literacy expo" and the standard 5 classes were in charge of making a big book for our float for the parade for literacy day. so we all had to come back at 1pm and work on the float. so i went home and ate and returned to school where i was nominated best handwriting and delegated our author for the big book. the task: writing humpty dumpty, i'm a little teapot, and the old woman who lived in a shoe on paper that was 2 yards long and 1 yard wide. sounds alright, i guess. wrong-o again! it took me approximately 4 hours to finish that darn book. post the 4 long hours i slaved away at my book i inquired as to what would happen to the book after the parade. it will be thrown away. ummm, i don't think so. if i have to fold it up and ship it home, that book will not be thrown away!
tomorrow should be a good day for pictures at the literacy expo. : )
all my love,
me
You are our QUEEN!!!
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