Friday, April 07, 2006
Dia de Mulher Moçambicana
Today is the Dia de Mulher Moçambicana, which is a womans holiday (day of the mozambican woman). Eli just created a girls club and we were planning on meeting up at the school at 7am to march to the praça (the town plaza) to join the festivities. Eli even got matching capulanas and pants made for all the members of her girls club- (there are almost as many boys as girls hence the pants!). Its a good thing that she made the girls club, because they were just about the only people to show up for the march! But we went, marched a little then caught a chapa to the praça. The ceremony took a little while to start, and once it did, it fell even farther behind schedule because of all the speaches. Eventaully we left for a restaurant, where the school director bought lunch for everyone who had come, and then Eli, I, the school director and two pedagogical directors sat and drank and ate for a few hours just chatting. Overall it was pretty fun, and worthwhile.
Eli probobly has a lot that she wants to say since this is about her girls club so I´ll keep it brief.
The only other news is that we´ve finished with the first trimester, and on monday we start with conselho de notas, or recording students grades, which is supposed to be a heck of a lot more complicated than anything in the US, since it´s all done by hand. Plus there are some options for changing students grades after the fact. I´m ´president´ of a class which means I´m in charge of running the record keeping for that class (I don´t know anymore than you do at this point, I´ll have to update the blog when I learn what I´m supposed to do!!).
We have 2 weeks of holidays before the next trimester which will be nice! As for now, we´re working on puzzles, getting more furniture for our house, and eating a lot of biscoti (the mozambican pastries that are like mini flour pretzels). Thanks for the recipies that have been sent so far, we appreciate them! Adeus,
Paul
Eli probobly has a lot that she wants to say since this is about her girls club so I´ll keep it brief.
The only other news is that we´ve finished with the first trimester, and on monday we start with conselho de notas, or recording students grades, which is supposed to be a heck of a lot more complicated than anything in the US, since it´s all done by hand. Plus there are some options for changing students grades after the fact. I´m ´president´ of a class which means I´m in charge of running the record keeping for that class (I don´t know anymore than you do at this point, I´ll have to update the blog when I learn what I´m supposed to do!!).
We have 2 weeks of holidays before the next trimester which will be nice! As for now, we´re working on puzzles, getting more furniture for our house, and eating a lot of biscoti (the mozambican pastries that are like mini flour pretzels). Thanks for the recipies that have been sent so far, we appreciate them! Adeus,
Paul
# posted by Paul and Eli @ 7:20 AM 
