not your average rainy afternoon
The first day of December started off with the sun shining, and a pleasant 80 degrees. We reveled in the slightly cooler weather. My first graders helped decorate our classroom door with Christmas presents and Christmas tree ornaments. We reviewed our words of the week and practiced some of our favorite songs. It was a pretty typical Friday.
Post-lunch was when the craziness began. Mid-math lesson it started to rain. Then pour. Now, to many this may not seem like a problem. For our school, it brought insanity. Our school has a tin roof, so the sound of the pouring rain was amplified to the maximum. I quickly abandoned the math lesson and let them do independent work since they actually couldn’t hear me. To give any sort of directions, I was actually screaming. Within a few minutes, one of my students had to move his chair because a nice little trickle of rain was coming through the roof. As the downpour continued, students would return from the bathroom completely soaked as they had to go outside to even get to the bathroom. Oh the drama! A couple of my students even warned me that I should turn off the lights (the two small bulbs that I have) because when it rains here, they always lose electricity. This just speaks highly to the reliability of power and electricity in Honduras. The afternoon finished as all the students booked out the door to play in all the puddles in the school yard, the dirt streets, and well everywhere.
Just your average rainy afternoon in Honduras.
Post-lunch was when the craziness began. Mid-math lesson it started to rain. Then pour. Now, to many this may not seem like a problem. For our school, it brought insanity. Our school has a tin roof, so the sound of the pouring rain was amplified to the maximum. I quickly abandoned the math lesson and let them do independent work since they actually couldn’t hear me. To give any sort of directions, I was actually screaming. Within a few minutes, one of my students had to move his chair because a nice little trickle of rain was coming through the roof. As the downpour continued, students would return from the bathroom completely soaked as they had to go outside to even get to the bathroom. Oh the drama! A couple of my students even warned me that I should turn off the lights (the two small bulbs that I have) because when it rains here, they always lose electricity. This just speaks highly to the reliability of power and electricity in Honduras. The afternoon finished as all the students booked out the door to play in all the puddles in the school yard, the dirt streets, and well everywhere.
Just your average rainy afternoon in Honduras.
posted by Anna | 10:13 AM
2 Comments:
Thanks, Anna. We are having an unseasonably warm and sunny day in Delaware. Just ask your mom, dad, and little sis (who has her first swim meet today vs. Tower Hill). The temp. is appraching 65 degrees F. It's not a December day at all. Hope you are drying out after that downpour! Have a good weekend.
From all your friends at SAS.
Wow I miss the afternoon rains in the classroom, even if only coming once or twice a year.
Did you guys get the candies we sent?
It's 14 degrees and icy here in Chicago. Enjoy that eternal spring!
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