Where to even start? Well, let me first explain why it has been so busy here for us. Right before a major break, this one being our 16 day Christmas Holliday (yes!!!!), things go a little insane at our school. Everything that we have been putting off until "later" needs to be accomplished before we lose the kids to their parents again. So the "later" has become the "right now!" and we pack it all in. In the three weeks leading up to break (we are on the last and final week right now), I have had zero days off. don't be confused, I mean weekends too! Yikes.
So it all began with two weekends ago. I always teach on Saturday's so that's a day I don't get off every week like the normal teachers you all know. But two weekends ago I also worked on Sunday: my roommate and I took her World Religion class students up to Taipei for the day to go to a museum. It was a really cool experience and I loved the kids in her class, but it was still work on a Sunday for me.
Then last weekend I again taught on Saturday (a wicked cool Jeopardy SAT Math game that the kids totally got into. If you teach or just want to learn SAT Math, shoot me an email and I can hook you up!) and again, needed to be at school on Sunday. Every year we invite the Down Syndrome Society of Taichung to school for a concert and we generally donate money to them at that time. So we had that little party at that time. Again, fun to see the kids and listen to the singing, but it was working again on Sunday.
And finally we are on the home stretch. However, the light at the end of the tunnel seems dim right about now, even though it is Thursday of our last week. This week has been the most hectic of them all- I have been putting in 10-12 hour days each day this week and right now I'm at hour 5 of my epic 15 hour day. Ugh. At least today should be fun. Here's the schedule:
Thursday starts just like your average day. I teach all of my four classes, just like a normal old school day. Then after school, instead of having normal activity, we will all gather in our houses to practice for the singing competition tonight. At 6 the formal Christmas dinner will start where we get pineapple glazed ham and other treats. Finally at 7:30 the house Christmas carol singing competitions will begin. Since there are 8 houses and each house sings two songs, I think we will be here for a while tonight!
Lucky for us, tomorrow we only have a half day. So in 24 hours I will be done! After 18 consecutive days working, we will be free of all obligations and children until January 4th. Sigh....I can't wait! I promise to be better at posting, I'll even try to take some pictures tonight at the singing contest and post them tomorrow!
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