Last Week Before Vacation, YES!

C'est Halloween, c'est Halloween, Hey!
C'est Halloween, c'est Halloween, Hey!

Any teacher here has that song emblazoned in their brains right about now, and for the past two weeks. Walking around the school, you can hear it blaring from all classrooms at various points in the day; particularly on French days.

The pictures have been sent to Lycée Francais of NY, the classrooms coated in orange and black, the cafeteria decked out, and everyone is preparing to trick or treat between classes tomorrow. Eye doctors are also scheduled to come visit from Miami. The kids won't know what to do. I've thrown my hands in the air, day libre!

Week libre in my book. English days were MWF. I don't even remember Monday, we did something else with pumpkins I'm sure, but Wednesday I had to get out of the classroom and out of the routine. It's so hard doing anything when you know vacation is lurking around the corner. I checked with Felipe and we took the kids to visit the soccer-field-in-progress; a mini field trip. I was a little nervous that a few (Karlens) would take the opportunity to run completely amuck, especially since we aren't allowed to walk on the 'field' because it's being prepped for the astroturf; we could only walk on the track. But, I wanted them to see what it looks like before the grass goes down. Otherwise, they would have just gone to play soccer and had no visual idea of what went into it. Plus, I really couldn't take painting, coloring, glueing and cutting orange paper anymore. They were amazing. Preschoolers do so well when they feel that you're trusting them with something, even if you aren't fully. I drew a picture of the field on the board and showed them where we were walking, emphasis on the walking part and that we were walking (again, emphasis) to the field from the class. There aren't really any savage animals in Haiti so as we approached the field and they were surrounded by the tall grasses I heard them whispering amongst themselves, "Watch out for the devil (jab), the devil lives here!" As other children would be scared of bears or lions or tigers. They have no idea what those animals are or that they even exist. They had a great time on the track and especially saying hello to all of the workers, who, I think, were really happy to see any other human being other than their co-workers on the field. They felt the turf that will go down after the vacation and they next time they see it, it will look completely different. Where else can we go...