friday

Rumor had it that it was a public holiday…and it turned out that it was at least for everyone other than Ebenezer…the end of Ramadan (Eid—I think) is a public holiday in Malawi but as it depends on the moon it wasn’t announced until Thursday afternoon. We went to school (I’ll admit I was hoping the kids wouldn’t show up because that would be the only way we’d have gotten dismissed by our principal). As it was Friday, Willeke was driving her older kids to school in town so I had the 1st and 2nd graders once again (why I was hoping for that holiday). As it turned out, I think about half the students came. At least I had 10 and by far the biggest class of the school. Spelling test, math, puzzles, break, story, art project (create a tree from cutting magazines and draw a boy—inspired by the book of the week), and music. Not a bad day though once again chaotic (I think this is my life)