Swine Flu

Egads! The school is closing for 2 weeks to help prevent the spread of Swine Flu. Our school doesn't actually have any confirmed cases of the flu and everyone that has come down with a cold recently has been shipped off to the hospital to be tested. Nobody has had anything other than a common cold.

However, a couple of the richer schools had a few students contract the flu after they took vacations in Mexico. Darn rich kids! So, the Ministry of Education decided it would be best to shut down all the schools in San Salvador (not sure if this stretches outside the city) for 2 weeks. This would be great if Soli and I could leave the school for 2 weeks, but we can't. Not part of our contract. We'll have to talk to the Sister's and see what we can negotiate. If there's stuff to be done around the school, I'll be happy to help, but if it's just busy work, I won't be so happy.

To make up the time, school will probably run 2 weeks longer into November, but it beats having school on Saturday 10 times to make up for the missed days!

On a lighter note, one of the workers here caught a mouse in the house and of the two Sister's still in the kitchen after dinner one grabbed a plastic bag for her to put the mouse in. When she dropped the mouse in the bag the other Sister ran to the other side of the room and the one who had the bag quickly backed away squirming when the worker took the bag! It was too funny! Then good ol' Sister Doracilla came along and gave the mouse a few good whacks to kill it, since nobody else would. :) I call her the no nonsense nun, always good for a laugh, I just don't always understand.