It is simply amazing to sit back and reflect that March 16th is a year since the great shutdown. A topsy turvy year for sure, and we’re certainly not done with it all yet.
Through it all, we keep trying to keep things as “normal” as we possibly can, which has proved a challenge. We continue to celebrate, and expose the kids as much as we can to everything we usually do.
For International Women’s Day, we learned new songs and old history. And each student went home with a rose for mom. Yes, it is bread we fight for, but we fight for roses too!
St. Patrick’s Day represents the first of the holidays we had to cancel and are now bouncing back and embracing. Not quite there yet, of course… St. Pat’s at GHS has been permanently revised since the addition of the adult component—sadly still missing….for now.
We celebrated on Wednesday, March 17th; practicing songs and preparing our boiled dinner. Ms. Julia was once again keen on our Green Off… no leprechaun-y stuff, but everyone wearing as much green as they could find.
We split our usual celebration and did the Green Eggs and Ham, with Juevos Verdes con Jamon and a salute to Ms. Welch and Theodore Geissel at once.
The kids are invariably finishing up something, from Luganda lessons to painting to a comparative literature discussion on Geissel’s work (aka Dr. Seuss). Bear with us—we’re creating the future here!
We took a bit of a beating in the windstorms, as you may have noticed, and have a few unscheduled repairs. Ms. Julia is a bit fed up with Mr. Danny’s swashbuckling roof antics. It has truly been a difficult year on so many fronts.
