This week brought to you by the letter H

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In the Spanish, the H is never actually pronounced, therefore not of much use. Hence, my week is brought to you by the letter H.

Very uneventful week, I showed up to teach on Monday only to be informed classes would not be held because of some teachers´meeting. I promptly got back on the same bus I arrived in to return to Otavlo to take care of some errands.

On Tuesday the bus I usually take in the morning never arrived, the other teachers weren´t particularly suprised, one shrugged and said ¨It sometimes happens.¨ I eventually tracked down a later bus, which had me arriving at school about 3 hours late. However, I finally made it to class only to find the vast majority of my students missing because of a soccer tournament. So, on the fly I made up some some basic review games, ditto for Wednesday. Thursday I watched a couple games of the soccer tournament, before returning to Otavalo for my Spanish class. Friday I did not have to teach because of another teachers´meeting, this time in Quito. While I did not in fact cover any new material with my students, I am starting to get ahead with my lesson plans.

My major excitement for the week came on Wednesday morning, where I found myself carreening across the mountainside, slipping and sliding through the fields (all of which are on hills) while I helped the family chase down a loose cow. A close second for entertainment was chasing down chicks (the baby chicken variety, not young women) with the kids, and putting them into a box for the night so they would not freeze to death.

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