An eventful end of the week

Since being here, I have not been as exhausted as have been this past week and espeicially this weekend! Spirit week just wore me down. It all turned out to be worth it and a ton of fun! Here are some pictures from Friday's Independence Day parade in which all the students in the school participated (even though Independence Day is actually on Wednesday):


Some of the Student Council members just helping to finish up the float. I think we were the only school that brought a float and so much school spirit! So Great!


The whole school celebrated a Mass before the parade, just like a regular Friday. Here are a couple of the musicians practicing before (Luis and Shamir).


Class 4C with their banner. Every class put a ton of time after school into creating a banner that represented the school pillars of Beauty, Truth, Goodness and Unity as well as the theme for the September celebrations of the year: Honoring our History, Celebrating our Culture, Uniting for Peace. Each class paraded their banner throughout the town for all of the onlookers. It was such a neat experience!


Class 2S, a class of all boys who put sooo much effort and skill into their banner. They were one of our winners for best banner, which they greatly deserved!


This is the banner that my homeroom (3C) did. I thought it was very creative!


Here is the Student Council Executive Board who all got to dress up culturally to ride on the float.


Lucia and I got in a last minute picture with the float before we started the parade.


Here we were just beginning the parade and some of the "lazy" boys wanted to ride in the back of the truck that pulled the float. Where they found that sign still remains a mystery...

And this is when the battery of my camera died. Silly me didn't think to charge it before the parade. Grr..



Yesterday, Saturday, I was invited home with a couple of my srudents, Maria and Olivia Pop. They live about 1.25 hours away from Benque in a little village called Valley of Peace. We went for their "brother's" 2nd birthday party. Here are some pictures from it:


Maria and I with Oscar.


Oscar with his pinata! I've been to a couple of birthday parties down here so far and they've all included a pinata!


They do pinatas justice down here! It took them a good 20 minutes to break the thing.


Olivia Pop chillin' in her hammock after dinner.


Oscar helping his "sister" to clean up. So cute!


The Pop family minus their father.



What a great weekend.