Although today was a pretty typical first day of school, we thought we would share a few pictures from the day. The most exciting part (for Elizabeth at least) was the cupcakes served at the all school snack time.
In addition, they had the cafeteria all decked-out with ballons and streamers. At lunch they had two actual clowns making ballon animals plus ice cream Sunday's. Unfortunetly, I didn't get a picture of them. I know the elementary kids loved it all, especially with all that sugar in their systems. Not sure how thrilled the high school students were, but everyone loves cupcakes and ice cream.
And here is Kevin, waiting outside his room for his students before the first class of the day.
He looks deceptively warm in his sweater and scarf. His classroom was actually warm the last two days and stayed that way. My library, however was cold (because of the people coming in and out all the time) and the hallways and cafeteria are even more cold...like outside temperature cold, which was about 50 today.
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| Cupcakes for 10am all school snack time. |
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| Decorations in the cafateria |
In addition, they had the cafeteria all decked-out with ballons and streamers. At lunch they had two actual clowns making ballon animals plus ice cream Sunday's. Unfortunetly, I didn't get a picture of them. I know the elementary kids loved it all, especially with all that sugar in their systems. Not sure how thrilled the high school students were, but everyone loves cupcakes and ice cream.And here is Kevin, waiting outside his room for his students before the first class of the day.
Now 50 is not actually that cold, until you never ever get to warm up. Even with two sweaters, a scarf and jacket on (and occasionally gloves!) I was cold all day. I think I may need someone to send me some long-underwear. I'm sure it doesn't helped that we are acclimated to Mumbai weather of 85-95 all year, but still, it's COLD here in Brazil.
And with all this cold damp weather it's also impossible to get your clothes dried. Some day soon, when we run out of clean clothes packed from the US, we may have to wear cold, damp clothes as well. OK, maybe that is a bit of an over exaggeration. After a few experiments, we did get our clothes to dry using a space heater...not sure it's the most efficient use of power though. We may eventually invest in a clothes drier when we have a lot more to wash and dry on a daily basis.
So, we hope everyone is enjoying their warm summer vacations in the US and elsewhere (and not overheating in the heat wave) as we enjoy our first day of (freezing) school in Brazil.
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