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Showing posts with label teacher day. Show all posts

Sunday, April 12, 2009

Life Can be so Unfair...

(sigh)

This is an important holiday weekend in most of Latin America. In the US, Easter is a fairly important religious holiday, but it doesn't involve days off, normally at least. In Catholic Latin America this is Semana Santa, Holy Week, a lengthy celebration. For many it is a 4-day weekend, including for the faculty and staff at my school.

Monday adds to it, it is 'Teacher Day' and after this 4-day weekend we will start our day with an assembly (or momento civico). After this we have classes until noon and then the students head home. At 1:30 we have a formal lunch at the auditorium for teachers. So, in the end we teachers will be at school for all day, but we will only teach half a day.

At my wife's school, though, they have Monday off, a 5-day weekend.

(sigh)

I need a different schedule!