Today my school finally got around to celebrating "Dia de los Niños"--Day of the Children. The schools in the area generally take advantage of every "holiday"to suspend classes and have a presentation or celebration for at least an hour--mine's actually pretty good about this, in that we don't lose whole days once a week to such things, as some other volunteers' do.
The official day was actually last week but since we had the air conditioning fire, we had to move our celebration to this week. Which meant that our primary children got to come to school sans uniform while an entertainer--which literally translates here to a "recreationist"--yelled things into the microphone and encouraged the excited small girls to scream. For approximately four hours straight
Keep in mind, these celebrations happen in the open area in my one-building school that is surrounded by classrooms. As in, the doors open up into the patio area.
Which meant that all other classes were useless because there was screaming and loud music drowning out every single teacher and student.
But it's a good thing they got all those screaming lessons. I hear it's a good skill to have around here, for the times when there are presentations and loud music drowning you out when you try and have class.
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