5 days to go...

Today our seniors are graduating.  It seems like the last weeks of school slow down so much you can't fathom even picking your feet up to walk another step.  It's been so hot lately that I just come home and try to cool down with fans, ice water and just end up watching friends or something because I just feel lazy.  I've got no more planning to do for any classes, and I really only have 14 students now since my seniors are gone.  My day at work is just sitting around until lunch, eat, then actually teach.  This is the part of teaching that is not challenging and feels just like babysitting and postponing just taking the finals already!!

Soon enough I'll be in Seattle then El Salvador and say goodbye to my sauna for two months. Right now it "feels like" 93F according to the heat index, although on other days it feels up to 100F or so, with the humidity.

Last weekend Bridget and I attended a birthday party for Jared, who has the same birthday as me.  He was turning 4. It was a fun party to watch the Filipino games and eat lots of potluck food.

Also a week ago we held Water Festival at the beach with about half of the students. You can check out the video I made:

We spent literally the entire day on the beach under tent canopies.  Students played capture the flag, volleyball, football, "balate" fights (throwing sea cucumbers), and relay races including team work walking thing, kayaking, passing fruits, and burying people in the sand.  It was pretty funny, especially when the teachers competed.  Also here's a neat sand "car" that a student made:

A couple weekends ago Bridget and I biked to Swimming Hole and found someone had put up a mini-latte stone on a table:

To learn about real Latte stones, click here.