Surprise News!

Hi!  So we had our first "strike" today because the roads are so bad, and the people of the town aren't putting enough money into them to help fix them.  So our school, Mayatan, had to pay and the roads are ruining the buses and it's so hard for kids to get to school and for teachers to walk.  So we met with the mayor today, and they are going to try and get it good by Thursday, so another day off tomorrow! Woo Woooo! However, we had to get rid of one of our 3 day weekends this month and a day off our 4 day weekend in March.  I woulda preferred just get rid of the 2 3-day weekends this month, but whatever.  We have another day off.  Ok, so after my first strike ever.....that took part in Honduras, kindaaaa cool, we talked about christmas break.  The thing with that is, it's cheaper to fly back the week after the new year.  So we were supposed to start back at school the 4th, but I guess alot of teachers said they wouldn't come back til the next week because it's cheaper.  So they would have to get us subs, for almost all the American teachers.  Now, instead, there's only like 6 of us flying out the 16th, so we're having school that whole week in December (we were supposed to be done that Wednesday) but Mandy & I come home the 16th, so we have Dec. 16th-Jan 7th of vacation!  I'll be home for 3 weeks! I'm super excited!  The school is pretty awesome and understands all our money situations, it's going to save us like $100 bucks in airfare and some teachers it's saving them like $300.  So we all win!  Yea!  Ok, that's all, the strike went ok, we'll see how the roads are in a couple days.  Hopefully it won't be too long, I'll get so boreddddd.  Good thing I start English tutoring today.  O, and we don't have water, the whole town doesn't have water.  A pipe broke, sooooooo we're kinda put on hold for a while without water, no showers, dishes, laundry, we have to old fashioned flush the toilet with a bucket of water.  O well, no school tomorrow, have a good rest of the week! :)