Bienvenido Senor Presidente

Today was another crazy day at Nuestros.

There were no classes, as the kids are writing exams this week........so I spent about 2 hours at the library helping clean up. Here I was climbing an 8 foot ladder taking down kids art from the ceiling and walls. Lovely mariposa´s. Good thing I didn´t fall!

Later in the morning, I followed the kids, teachers and other volunteers as they had a practise run on the President of Guatemala´s visit later this week. Yes, the big head guy of this country is coming to visit. He will be digging the first scoop of dirt for the construction of a new Instituto de Tecnico Escuela.

It´s a super big thing here. The President coming. There will be security everywhere.

My role today was to ensure piece and quiet. Impossible. Especially when you don´t know what to say to the kids when they are fighting or just goofing off. It was pretty funny. They had to practise standing still and waving to the President. They used one of the teachers as a stand in.

They also had to practise the National Anthem

http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/8106/Anthems/guatemala.htm

We came back on the Chicken bus.............over 80 of us on one bus! 4 to 6 kids per seat and a pile of us standing..............yup!

http://www.atitlan.com/chickenbus/index.htm

I also had about 3 boy´s probably in grade 3 make fun of my hair!

Kids can be mean.