and the winners for Acapulco's Who's Who Awards...
*highest GPA*
*most likely to succeed*
*best hair*
*best body*
*best dressed*
* * * A C A P U L C O * * *
seriously, BEST vacation ever. for several reasons. i think we were in desperate need of a vacation so the timing was perfect. and then, the fact that we planned a RELAXING vacation at the beach - who could ask for anything better?
our bus left from puebla at 11pm on friday night & we got to acapulco around 6am.
we checked into our hostel & napped for a few hours before hitting the beach.
rewind: the hostel.
the hostel was by NO means anything like the hostel experience we had in oaxaca. our standards were set pretty high - so this hostel just did NOT add up.
*free internet = 30 minutes of free internet.
*air conditioning included = AC is turned on at 6pm and off at 6am daily.
*free breakfast = a bowl of cereal.
needless to say, the hostel was not everything we had anticipated.
BUT - the location, location, location. it was PERFECT.
it was right near the beaches, the restaurants, clubs, bars, everything AWESOME.
the location made up for everything else that the hostel lacked...
our vacation consisted of lots of beach hang time, napping, eating seafood, dancing at night, exploring the area & laughing. OH laughing. we did a lot of that.
acapulco is not a huge "dia de los muertos" area of mexico so we really didn't do anything traditional as far as that goes. we didn't even see an ofrenda, not that i remember at least? but the bars were all having halloween celebrations and we did see a few people dressed up! some mermaids and pirates. nothing too crazy!
this place was absolutely beautiful.
HALLOWEEN
well, we had our halloween celebration at the american school. it was really a fun day! all of the kids were dressed up in their expensive costumes & we had TONS of candy. we had a parade for the kids in each grade level to walk and then a time for teachers & parents to walk. it lasted for about an hour - and it was fun to see all of the different costumes that were in the other grade levels! after the parade, my class went "trick-or-treating" to the other 2nd grade classrooms and then we had a pizza party in our classroom. needless to say, the kids were HYPED up on candy and drinks and pizza. all we did was play board games and halloween activities all afternoon.
here are some pictures of our halloween celebration day:
"miss megan! get a picture with the pirates!"
one of my classes & their lovely costumes.
miss brittan, me & miss colleen at the halloween parade.
football playa - nerd - barbie
wow, creepster in the back....
"miss megan we need un foto"
<---AMOEBAS--->
i'm not sure when it happened, but my stomach got invaded by amoebas. i'm still suffering, somewhat. imagine the worst stomach ache you've ever had and multiply that by 50 and that's about what it feels like. i don't even know what these suckers are doing inside my tummy but it huuuuurts. a staff member at my school gave me some homeopathic medicine to help with the amoebas but i'm thinking i will have to ask her for some more meds. these suckers are bad. i'm thinking NOW would be a good time for them to leave my tummy and find somewhere else to invade.
*please pray that these little creatures find somewhere else to go
and that my stomach heals.
last but not least i wanted to mention parent meetings. we've been having a lot more of these lately because parents know that it's getting closer to report card time. basically, the meetings all go the same. parents are concerned about their child's grades and basically they just want to hear us say that they are doing okay. (at our school, parents can request 'citas' or teachers can also request one with a parent. but pretty much, we have a slot of time open every wednesday that is open to parents conferences - if any parents request one). but today, we had an interesting parent cita. the mom was genuinely concerned about her child's attention span in class and at home and the fact that he seems very unmotivated to do anything to do with school (study, read, parties, field trips...it all bored him) but it was my first experience with a crying mother. i didn't know what to do. we just comforted her and told her that we would figure out the problem and see what it is that her son is lacking in motivation. maybe there are children in his class that are being bully-ish to him? maybe he doesn't understand and feels stupid? maybe he's bored? it's interesting - and i'm eager to find the source of his apathy towards school. this was definately something to add to the list of things teachers deal with - crying parents.
ok, that's about it!
i love you all! :)
-meggie
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