Day 78: Last Day of School!

This is really weird. We've been in school for two and a half months. Today was our last day. A week from today Hannah will have started back at Western Middle School in the seventh grade. I'm still not sure I've really let that sink in.

We had a full day: the first-graders wrote their own books about pumpkins and jack-o'-lanterns, the other kids made a fun books of jack-o'-lanterns, and we did the typical math, science, Spanish, and social studies. At the end of the day, the student's dad who's an amazing soccer guy came in and worked with the kids for about 45 minutes. Then we finished off with a drawing to see who was taking our jack-o'-lantern home! So, yeah, it was definitely a full day!

Immediately after school, I got my classroom things packed up to ship home. While I did that, Hannah and two of the other girls washed Al's car so it will be fairly clean when he returns on Saturday. We were all done by 4:00 and took our 70-pound box of classroom "stuff" to the post office to be sent home.

We then went home and grabbed a quick shower to get all that sweat off so we'd be presentable - and not stinky - so we could go pick up Nadeen from the airport and take her home. (You may remember that we stayed in her house for the first two and a half months here. That's where we were living when Irene hit and Maria decided not to.) It was great getting to meet her and put a face with the house! She typically does the books for Abbie's school, so most of the kids at school know her pretty well.

Tonight we indulged in television - a rarity these days - and watched Survivor. Then I turned OFF my morning alarm, since tomorrow we can sleep as late as we like! We're hoping to catch one last snorkel and swim, probably hitting Tamarindo and Zoni Beaches, so maybe we'll have some more cool underwater shots for tomorrow's posting!!!


Thank you, God, for a great last day of school!!!