rtment. Overall you can see I'm living well here! My school pays the rent on my apartment and it came completely furnished. The school rents apartments all over this neighborhood so only one other teaching couple from EBV lives in my building, but we definitely have the nicest apartments so it's worth it even though we live a little farther away from everyone else. I put more pictures on facebook because it uploads faster there for some reason, so look for more pictures there!
My classroom is all decorated for Halloween now. Even though Halloween is not really celebrated here in Venezuela, my school celebrates all American holidays. I think the fact that it's a foreign holiday makes the kids even more excited about it, so the parents are really involved with Halloween stuff at school. Seven moms from my class came to decorate my room one day and they even brought candy so I could have a candy dish for the students this month. I decided to forgo that idea to avoid a two week headache of sugared up students, but their intentions were sweet. :)
The moms are also organizing a Halloween party. They are going to bring in McDonald's Happy Meals for lunch, plus cupcakes and a goodie bag with candy. They wanted to collect about $30 from each student to buy the food and pay for the Halloween decorations and stuff like that (since they were shipped from the US it was probably a little expensive). Still, I can NOT imagine a school in the States that would collect that much money to fund a Halloween party for one classroom! They also wanted to get about $15 from each student to pay for a birthday party and gift for my assistant. Very, very sweet... but still crazy! It's just another example of the population that I work with. They are generous with their time and money and on the whole they are really good people; not stuck up or anything like that.
Here are a few pictures of my classroom, pre-Halloween decorating. I will put some pictures of the Halloween party up after that happens.
Here are some before and after pictures of my classroom:
The moms are also organizing a Halloween party. They are going to bring in McDonald's Happy Meals for lunch, plus cupcakes and a goodie bag with candy. They wanted to collect about $30 from each student to buy the food and pay for the Halloween decorations and stuff like that (since they were shipped from the US it was probably a little expensive). Still, I can NOT imagine a school in the States that would collect that much money to fund a Halloween party for one classroom! They also wanted to get about $15 from each student to pay for a birthday party and gift for my assistant. Very, very sweet... but still crazy! It's just another example of the population that I work with. They are generous with their time and money and on the whole they are really good people; not stuck up or anything like that.
Here are a few pictures of my classroom, pre-Halloween decorating. I will put some pictures of the Halloween party up after that happens.
Here are some before and after pictures of my classroom:
Nice hut.
ReplyDeleteAlso, nice classroom!