The first quarter of school is over and this is only my second blog of the year! I guess things have just been pretty busy and/or the internet doesn’t always work properly.
Since Independence Day, we have had House and Inter School Cross Country Meets, Student Talent Show, Quarter Break and Parent-Teacher Conferences.
The cross country meets were held up at the top of the hill on the Chakkar (figure eight road). For Inter House all of the students had to run for their own house, merlins, condors or eagles and then the fastest students went on to run for the Inter School Meet, where several other Mussoorie schools participated.
I’m sure there are other events that happened between CC meets and the talent show, but I can’t remember them specifically right now. I did lead a middle school hike one Saturday morning, early in the semester. It was funny, because I was the hike “leader” but I had never been to the hiking destination – Bear Hill. I knew where we needed to end up, but I was not sure how to get there. In the end, everything was fine, but the kids had an eventful hike, full of snakes, bees and a few leeches. The students get points depending on how far they hike and all of my students thought that they should get more hiking points for that morning…
The student talent show was just like any other high school talent show I’ve been too – although this year wasn’t too loud, thank goodness. There a few really good acts – singers and then the rest were at least entertaining… I am probably a bit overcritical. Last year the staff talent show took place in the fall and the student show was in the spring. But they swapped the two this year, now the staff have longer to prepare!
Last weekend was quarter break. We had been going straight from August until October without any days off school – so it was really nice to have last Thursday and Friday off from school. A lot of the students were taken out of boarding by their parents and some students went on trips with dorm parents. There were also students who just stayed in the dorm for the long weekend. I took a trip to Rishikesh with two of the other teachers, Kate and Stephen. Kate works in the music department, she teaches piano and voice lessons and went to college at St. Olaf. Stephen is one of the new math teachers. We stayed in Rishikesh from Thursday to Sunday and it was a pretty relaxing vacation – although very hot!!! We went rafting on the Ganges river, did some shopping, ate at new restaurants (I usually eat at the same place when I have gone to Rishikesh in the past), did some yoga, got massages and viewed a ceremony on the river. I’m glad that I had the chance to go rafting, because I will be chaperoning a weeklong rafting trip with grade 10 students for Activity Week in November. The rafting was fun, but we only went for 3 hours. For Activity Week, we will camp out along the river and raft for 4 days, kayak for one and hike for another day. I’m sure it will be fun, but tiring!
Once we all came back from quarter break, Woodstock had parent-teacher conferences on Monday morning. It was nice to see students with their parents, although I didn’t have too many parents to talk to. Then we had lunch and classes resumed in the afternoon.
Thursday, October 8, 2009
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