Short entry today. Debbie, my sitemate, and I went to the orphange this afternoon to help a representative from Reebok Bulgaria hand out shoes and get things roughly planned for the thing that will be tomorrow's visit. I'll be going as a poorly dressed Santa, we'll sing a carol or two, then give them bagfuls of candy and pieces of cake. Then we'll dramatically dive out the door as the building explodes in a massive orphan sugar high. It'll be a good time.
The last real day of school went well. In every class we sang songs, talked about Christmas and the year to come, and had an all-around good time. Saturday marks a brief return, but it'll just be a ministry mandated half-day and will be entirely fun. The students are already pointing out that it'll end in a teachers' party that all the teachers will leave drunk.
I'd raise a point about the terrible example a lot of teachers here set for the students, but that would be horribly generalizing and require more strength than I can muster at the end of a Thursday capped by a trip to the orphange. Frankly, just this was a blow to the system from which I may never recover. I hope you're grateful...
Posted by Rob at December 18, 2003 10:21 PM