la Navidad

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

el Adviento

This week...

...we decorated the chapel for Christmas...

...we began the season of Advent with lessons about hope and peace...

 ...we hung out with a group of interpreting students from Ohio...

  

...we learned Christmas songs together...

...they helped us with our school work...

...and, possibly, my favorite thing that happened this week--drumroll please--I got a new LCD projector for my classroom (thanks to goodsearch.com money), and my two new donated computers are finally up and running!  Now all of my students can use computers in our room at the same time! 

 

Don't they look happy!

los tres cerditos

 

This week, my class read The Three Little Pigs to the little kids.  Johanely was absent, so Kristian and Larimar filled in.

Then, of course, the little kids had a chance to tell us the story.

acción de gracias

It's hard to be away from family on Thanksgiving. (Thanks to Skype, though, I was able to sit with them around the dining room table!)  

Even though I wasn't near my real family, I was able to spend the day with some of the people who are quickly becoming like family to me.  Equipped with chairs, books, sunglasses and a cooler full of turkey sandwiches,  we headed to the second best place to spend Thanksgiving...the beach!

We spent the long weekend with some lovely visitors from Missouri with whom we ate a lot of ice cream and laughed almost nonstop!  We went to a town fair, did a little Christmas shopping in San Juan, and visited a gallery of local artists at the rain forest.  

Not a bad way to spend a weekend...but by Monday morning, we were all pretty exhausted!