I don't know if I will ever be accustomed to the rain here in Costa Rica. We saw the sun this morning, and it was beautiful, but within two hours it had clouded over, and it was pouring again by noon. I know it's the rain that keeps this country lush and beautifully green; I just wish the green didn't show up on my moldy belt, or the shoes in my closet, or the very slippery sidewalk outside my gate. It would be so nice to wash my clothes, hang them to dry, and actually have that happen! Oh well. October is almost over, and that means we are that much closer to December and some sun (knock on wood - but not too hard. It's rotten.)
We had our Halloween parade today. It's really fun seeing some of the impressive costumes. Some might call it a waste of time, and the amount of sugar provided by the parents afterward as scarily excessive, but those people might be called teachers. While I was bemoaning the fact that we've lost so much "instructional time" this week, it occurred to me that I had participated in events like this in school, missed this time, and still turned out okay. It was not the end of my educational career. In fact, when you think about it, the students learned hot to think flexibly, how to create and innovate, and how to think and work interdependently (Yay for the Habits of Mind!)
Overall, they learned outside of the classroom today, and that's quite all right. They're going to have to live outside of the classroom eventually.
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