holiday?

So all weekend we’d been hearing that the Monday was a public holiday. Then we’d hear that it wasn’t. then that the hospital was running on on-call staff Monday. But it wasn’t announced in church as a public holiday (which it normally would be) so we were going to school bright and early Monday morning ready to have kids (and hoping that it was a holiday)…it wasn’t. the kids came and we had class and it went pretty well even if I did have to get over the disappointment. Turns out that 5 years ago under the old governmental regime it was a holiday…(still confusion after 5 years?!)

Wednesday we went to school and no kids showed up. There was not even the rumor of it being a holiday and all of us teachers showed up…someone said something about it being kids’ independence day—I’ve never heard of it but think it would have been a great idea. Or that it was youth day in South Africa so maybe it is international? Anyway. I still have no idea but we had a 2 hour get your room in shape and do some prep before we went home to enjoy our holiday.