So firstly I'd like to say sorry to all those who though I'd died, I haven't!!! And I have another blog for you. :D On the 24th and 25th May we went to La Ceiba for the annual Ceiba Carnaval. Eight of the PT volunteers, and Melissa (who we now live with) descended on El Estadio Hostel and spent the weekend doing carnivaly things - dancing, singing, looking at floats, staying up past midnight, and generally having a great weekend. Last week I finally finished sc...

The last day before school broke up for Semana Santa (Easter holidays) we had the school's annual science fair, and this year's theme was "The Body a Perfect Creation". Grade 1 had teeth. I quickly discovered that assisting 6/7 year olds with a science fair really meant doing the science fair and letting the children take all the credit. With only 4 days until the science fair I quickly got to work finding lots of interesting information about teeth for my ch...

Now, in England we don't really have "Spelling Bees" and even if we do they are not quite like the ones they hold in America which are big important events in the calendar each year. Being a bilingual school, Blanca Jeanette Kawas has many of the same school traditions as American schools and this year they held their Third Annual Spelling Bee Competition. Being the only teacher that does not teach in the afternoons I was invited to be one of the 2 judges at t...

So Christmas is definitely drawing nearer and on Friday we had the school Christmas play (Velada Navideña), which turned out to be a much bigger event than we were expecting. It was also the first Christmas play that I have ever been to that was outside, in bright sunshine, and almost 30 degrees!! It was a little confusing. Each class was performing something for the parents, and I had decided to do a poem with my children called "Christmas Comes". Unfortunate...

So on Friday we celebrated National Identity at school, and it was probably one of the best day I've had since I got here! All the teachers, along with many parents, spent Thursday afternoon preparing the classrooms for the day, each classroom had a different theme and my Grade 1's had typical wines. On Friday morning we got to school nice and early to change into our national dresses, we were very dubious when we first got given our dresses, but after putting ...