School´s Closing

And so it goes....

The Education Ministry is going to close the schools in all of El Salvador for another week to try and slow the spread of the Swine Flu. The country has raised its alert level to Red and all the fiestas for the month of August have been cancelled, so there will be no large gatherings of people. I have to admit, a lot of the students in the school are getting sick. Though, it hasn´t been the Swine Flu, apparently it´s just the flu. Either way, half of the Junior class is missing from school this week, that´s 16 students.

We still don´t know if the closing will take place one week before the August vacations or one week after, but those are the two options, that way there are two full weeks where no one is attending schools. Vacations are the first week of August which means one week before and I´ll be starting my vacation next Monday, or the week after and I´ll be starting vacations in another week. This time, the missing days will simply be made up with another week of classes at the end of the school year. I prefer this method much more!