I don't know if my mom and dad have shared this story with very many of you, but it is a funny one so I thought I would post it on the blog.
While my parents were here, we had another assembly at school. The first part of it was similar to our last assembly with kids from different grades giving little speeches and the English department singing songs that no one knows the meanings to. Towards the end of the assembly, some of my 6th graders put on a skit. They had dressed up in jeans and t-shirts and brought plastic toy guns to school. They re-enacted a battle of some sort. The entire re-enactment took place around a big fort-like thing they had made that morning with the help of the 6th grade teacher. The fort was made out of cardboard boxes and black plastic trash bags. Towards the end of their "battle", after almost all of the people had been killed (although Tico children have a hard time laying still so many of the "dead" people did a lot of moving around), the few remaining warriors doused the fort with gasoline. Then, they lit the end of a mop on fire and stuck it in the middle of the gasoline drenched fort. It went up in flames, everyone cheered, walked away and left the fort to burn to the ground.
There is a large, black, charred piece of land marking the area of such a heroic battle in the middle of our playground today.
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hey liz,
ReplyDeletesorry i havent posted recently, but as you can probably guess finals are just around the corner(one more week). those scorpions sound fun. im sorry you have to deal with those insects, you arent used to that kind of stuff like use flagstaffians. if it makes you feel better i have brown racluses all over my house. you just have to remember to shake out your clothes and shoes before you put them on, cause having one of those in your clothes when you put them on isnt fun.
that assembly sounds pretty cool. i cant believe they just let the fire burn itself out. seems kind of irresponsible to me considering you are, from what i can tell, in the WUI(Wildland Urban Interface). i mean i dont know how close your forest land is from your school but i would imagine it isnt too far away. something you wouldnt find acceptable in the states.
well i'm sure you are wondering, im doing really well in school this semester. i am pretty sure that i will only get one C this semester, but its in soils and that class is f*cking hard. the rest of my classes im going into finals with either an A or a B. I wish i could come visit you this summer but i am taking summer school like a good college student and it starts the first of june so i dont think i will be able to make time to get down there. which sucks because i think i really would've liked coasta rica and i miss you.
well i hope you have fun with pat and ellen, and try not to miss me too much. keep having fun and enjoy every minute you can. love yeah bunches.
Mickey
How are the monkeys? Does the sloth miss us? We sure had fun Lulu. This week just wasn't the same.
ReplyDeleteLove you,
Pops