This last week we got to meet up with a great friend of mine from work. He was here with his wife and their neighbors from home. It was so great seeing someone from home and it made me miss it a little more. We were able to go out to eat with them on Sunday this week and we just spent the night eating and catching up. We showed them around the town a little bit and made suggestions about where to go and what to do while they were here. The couple that they were with was actually the aunt and uncle of one of Britta and mine really good friends from school who came down to Cabo the last time that we were here. It was nice that we had so much in common and so much to talk about even though no one else had really met besides Doug and myself. They left today to go back to cold Minnesota, but I hope they enjoyed their time here.
Britta's aunt and uncle are also here and we will be meeting up with them soon sometime this week. Britta just had to get her new shoes that she ordered online so they were sent down with her aunt and uncle. She will be one happy camper when she gets those :)
I can't wait for the week after next when my sister and Jordan come. I've already been making a list of things for them to do and try while they are here and the cheapest places that they can go to try and find everything they want. Hopefully they have a lot of fun and have a relaxing vacation! It will be so good to see the two of them and hopefully I will get to see them a lot after school since they aren't really here on the weekend at all.
My puppy is still cute as ever and getting bigger every day.
The sunsets are also still gorgeous! It has been feeling a bit like spring/fall in the morning with the cooler temps, but I enjoy them since most the time I am so hot when everyone else is so cold. I think we have grown to used to the weather here and will have quite a shock when I get home!
Thursday my students had sports day/track and field day. It was only for kindergarten and the older students (the rest of the school) have theirs next Friday. It was so cute to see the students all dressed in their red and blue and compete in all the activities. I think what was even better was how excited the parents got for their children. They just take so much pride in their children and they show how much love they have for them. All the students did such a great job and had such a fun day! Our day finished at 12:45, but since Britta was still at the school I went back and spent the afternoon with her. After just 45 minutes of being with her kids I wanted to go running back to kinder. It was just a different kind of crazy than what I deal with, but it was fun to see what another classroom in this school looked like.
Speaking of loving one another, that is one thing that I like about Mexico. People are so nice and friendly, at least what I have experienced. In the morning they greet each other with a kiss on the cheek and it's not just one person, it is every person you see on the way to where you are going. Minnesota nice is one thing, but Mexico nice is another. It's just a different kind of nice, kind of a hard concept to explain until you are immersed in their culture for as long and longer than we are. I like it in some aspects, but don't in others. It's just so different than anything that we are used it in the states.
Our grass heads are growing like crazy!
This week on Wednesday the government informed the schools of Mexico that they were not allowed to use their teacher in service days to use for make up days from the hurricane. The schools of Mexico use the last Friday of every month as an inservice day so we found out Wednesday night that we were not having school on Friday for the students. Britta and I both attended the inservice, but spent most our day doing other things since the entire day was in Spanish. We were able to partake in some of the activities, but most of them we did not understand and a lot of the day was discussion and the IB coordinator talking to them able to program.
Hopefully this weekend we think of something fun to do and it looks like it is supposed to be nice on Saturday and cloudy on Sunday, but we normally make the best of all our days here, especially our weekends that we have off from school.
Sending warm thoughts everyone's way back in MN! See you in a month cold weather!
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