Marce and I left at around 9:30 to go to her school. This would be the first day back for teachers and students after a winter break. The break was longer than planned due to the H1V1 epidemic as well as an unusually cold winter.
There was a lot of excitement when the students entered, partly due to returning after their break and partly due to having a visitor. I met all of the teachers and visited the classrooms. I was bombarded by questions in broken English and Spanish.
There are two four-hour shifts at the school. One group enters at 8:00 and leaves at 12:00. The other group enters at 1:30 and leaves at 5:30. There is a new group of teachers for each shift, also. It is illegal for teachers to work double shifts, unlike Mexico. As in Korea, students work for 50 minutes and then get a 10 minute break every hour.
I met Marce's principal, Susana. She was very pleasant. I also met Cristina, a teacher who is filling in as a second vice principal while the other one is on leave. The three administrators share an office about half the size of my office. The three sit around one desk.
After the afternoon shift arrived Marce and I left. We went and got a bite to eat then met a friend of hers, Andrea, in the city center. With Andrea we visited a museum in an old Capuchino monastery and the church of Buen Pastor that is run by the Capuchinos. After we went for coffee/tea at a bar located in a new building constructed behind the old facade of a building that had belonged to Miguel's grandfather. Marce and Miguel actually had lived in the old building for a year.
We returned home and had a late cena before going to bed.
There was a lot of excitement when the students entered, partly due to returning after their break and partly due to having a visitor. I met all of the teachers and visited the classrooms. I was bombarded by questions in broken English and Spanish.
There are two four-hour shifts at the school. One group enters at 8:00 and leaves at 12:00. The other group enters at 1:30 and leaves at 5:30. There is a new group of teachers for each shift, also. It is illegal for teachers to work double shifts, unlike Mexico. As in Korea, students work for 50 minutes and then get a 10 minute break every hour.
I met Marce's principal, Susana. She was very pleasant. I also met Cristina, a teacher who is filling in as a second vice principal while the other one is on leave. The three administrators share an office about half the size of my office. The three sit around one desk.
After the afternoon shift arrived Marce and I left. We went and got a bite to eat then met a friend of hers, Andrea, in the city center. With Andrea we visited a museum in an old Capuchino monastery and the church of Buen Pastor that is run by the Capuchinos. After we went for coffee/tea at a bar located in a new building constructed behind the old facade of a building that had belonged to Miguel's grandfather. Marce and Miguel actually had lived in the old building for a year.
We returned home and had a late cena before going to bed.
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