Family Day

The food drive field trip with my class went well on Friday. Although I had several students not come to school and a handful leave early, for those who did attend it was a good experience. It pushed the students outside of their comfort zones and gave them a chance to serve. We took 23 bags of food and passed out bibles to the Haitian families. I look forward to being able to reflect over this experience with the students at school on Monday.

I think I should have spent the remainder of my weekend building an ark because it has rained, rained, and rained. The parent club of the school had planned Family Day on Saturday. This is a huge school fundraising event, but unfortunately the rain scared some people off. I went for a short while and the set-up was neat. They had a dunk tank and some moon walks. There were all different types of activities. There was a big dodge ball tournament and several raffles. The scariest station was the jail. Students could pay a certain amount of pesos to put someone in jail for a designated amount of time. Let me paint you a picture of the jail. It was an empty classroom that was filled with newspapers, old food containers, trash, and a few stink bombs. Before students put someone in jail they could choose to torture that person by smothering them with their food/object of choice. If the victim did not want to stay in jail then he had to pay to get out. This raised lots of money, but it was NASTY!! Luckily I did a good job of hiding from the students that desired to put me in jail and I didn’t get tortured. 


The rest of my weekend was spent inside trying to stay away from the rain! We have a short week then I’m off to the airport to meet mom and dad and final destination = the beach!