poker face

Happy 10th birthday to my cousin, Dylan! I miss you and I hope you have a great day!

The school was chaos yesterday. No teacher planned a lesson because the owner of the school came into all of our classes on Thursday and told the students they could bring water balloons, foam spray cans, and water guns to celebrate carneval. I had some students who didn´t want to parktake in the fun outside the school in my first two classes so I taught them some Valentine´s Day phrases and we made Valentines cards. Those kids are so cute. I bought candy for all my classes as well, but in my 3rd class only 5 out of 27 students showed up and they all just threw buckets of water at other people and only came upstairs when they saw me through a window holding up candy I promised on Thursday to bring them. Not a single person showed up for my last class so that was convenient. I guess it makes sense because on Thursday I told them we weren´t going to learn anything new on Friday, just make Valentine´s Day cards (and what teenager wants to do that?) or they could celebrate carneval outside the school. A lot of students didn´t pay attention to the whole "only celebrate outside the school" bit because the school cleaning lady was sweeping tons of water out of the hallways of the school. I got sprayed by foam only once and otherwise just stayed in the school as much as possible to avoid getting soaked, but when I was leaving for the night a student who I don´t know poured a bottle of water on me... Oh well, it´s all in good fun.

Last night I went out to a bar called Casa Tinku with a bunch of other teachers and it was tons of fun. We had some drinks beforehand at someone´s house and took taxis to the bar. There was a band playing for a while and they were pretty good, then they just turned on a playlist of music. Lady Gaga´s song "Pokerface" and The Black Eyed Peas song "Ive Got A Feeling" are huge here right now. It was comforting to hear those and some other songs I know and after a few more drinks, we were all dancing like idiots. Good times.

Anyway, off to the Saturday open air market to stock up on fruits, vegetables, eggs, etc.

Hope everyone´s doing well!