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My Haikus

So my class have been learning how to write haikus
- Japanese poems with syllable pattern 5-7-5.

After they finished their rainbow one
I said "make one up about something else"...

Miss Page, Oh TP!
We'll miss you so much that
Our hearts will turn lonely.
...

Miss Page you are so cool
I will miss you when you leave
You are so much fun!
...

I love your songs
Your singing makes us happy
You really sing well.
...

Great and wonderful.
Ms Page is lovely and bright.
I love my teacher.
...

My teacher is great.
She always smiles in class.
She is called Miss Page!
...

Teaching naughty kids
Giving us tests all day long
She's sometimes grumpy.

Making us happy,
She plays games with us all day.
You're the best teacher.
...

Princess of learning.
The brain of all the whole world.
She is my teacher.

Dogs and Walls

Possibly two of the most striking things about El Salvador.

Dead dogs everywhere. Hit by cars.
I try not to look and always hope Chayo won't notice.
'It's probably just sleeping' I sometimes say...
But then it's there the next day, and the next, and the next...

...

So what's different about El Salvador? I asked my five year old niece.
She thought for a moment and then said 'The walls'.
High walls. Often covered with rolls of razor wire or broken glass bottles.
You can't see the houses from the outside and when you're inside you can't see out.
Security.

SATs in the City

The marking's not that bad really...
you just need to look for the
subordinating connectives,
prepositional phrases,
simple adverbials,
and the rest.

Hmmm...

The teacher's test.

Fever

Chayo and I have been struck down by a blight of sickness, just as I was thinking we'd got through the year.

His fever seems to have come down now and he's ok, but was pretty miserable yesterday. I am with an annoying headache still but just glad the migraines, vomiting and other nasty things have finished... fingers crossed.

Update

Sorry I've been a bit off the radar recently...

So, Osiris is much better - starting to walk again and catch up with her university work.

Chayo is fine; obsessed with Pokemon, swimming, and all superheroes. He's growing fast and learning to read: mum, dad, dog, cat...

School is good generally. When I'm on top of things my class are great.

As for me... I'm
* trying to be patient with all the kids in my life (24 + 1)
* reading lots
* spending time with my friends in the countryside
* thinking about what I'll miss when I leave here
* wondering how it will feel to be back in England in a couple of months

Hit and Run

Yesterday crossing the busy road by my house, on her way to university Osiris got hit by a car.

She was thrown into the air, lost her shoes, bag and homework strewn across the road. The people driving the car sped off.

She's now in hospital with broken leg, broken ribs and a pretty bashed up face, under observation... fingers crossed no internal injuries.