Today was our big “Spring Fling” celebration/recruiting event. Teachers were picked up by bus at 9:00. We were running games and activities for the kids, face painting, fish pond, painting, lawn bowling, toss to the target games and a lot more. It was a big splash with tents, fancy tables and chairs with large real flower center pieces. There was a variety concert, scuba intro lessons, pony rides, dunk tank and big inflatable games. The last event was a tug of war between, elementary and secondary teachers...won by elementary and a students vs. teachers match…won by teachers. The last event was a concert by a fairly popular Cairo singer and his large band. Raffle tickets had been sold and there were a lot of prizes given out. I won a beach themed large basket of beach toys and other interesting things. I kept two towels and a bottle of sunscreen and gave the rest to my classroom cleaner. She was very happy as she is quite poor. It was a bit like a summer festival at home, (a bit fancier) even had a fight out in the parking lot! We didn’t get to leave school till 6:30 and we were all very, very tired, out in the sun all day. When we got to an overpass bridge on the way into Maadi, where we live, the traffic was diverted. A double load flat bed truck loader with cement bags had failed to make the curve on the overpass and the cab and first flat bed section were dangling from the overpass just about touching the ground with gas pouring out of the gas tank. I hope no one was riding on the back of the load, often this kind of truck had 'unloaders' snoozing or sitting on top of the load. Police were directing traffic around it and people were watching and of course smoking. No evacuation! I also noted cracks in the section of the overpass where it was hanging. We had to take an alternate route and didn’t get home till 8:00. It was so, so hot on the bus. School tomorrow!
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http://picasaweb.google.com/colmac27
Today was our big “Spring Fling” celebration/recruiting event. Teachers were picked up by bus at 9:00. We were running games and activities for the kids, face painting, fish pond, painting, lawn bowling, toss to the target games and a lot more. It was a big splash with tents, fancy tables and chairs with large real flower center pieces. There was a variety concert, scuba intro lessons, pony rides, dunk tank and big inflatable games. The last event was a tug of war between, elementary and secondary teachers...won by elementary and a students vs. teachers match…won by teachers. The last event was a concert by a fairly popular Cairo singer and his large band. Raffle tickets had been sold and there were a lot of prizes given out. I won a beach themed large basket of beach toys and other interesting things. I kept two towels and a bottle of sunscreen and gave the rest to my classroom cleaner. She was very happy as she is quite poor. It was a bit like a summer festival at home, (a bit fancier) even had a fight out in the parking lot! We didn’t get to leave school till 6:30 and we were all very, very tired, out in the sun all day. When we got to an overpass bridge on the way into Maadi, where we live, the traffic was diverted. A double load flat bed truck loader with cement bags had failed to make the curve on the overpass and the cab and first flat bed section were dangling from the overpass just about touching the ground with gas pouring out of the gas tank. I hope no one was riding on the back of the load, often this kind of truck had 'unloaders' snoozing or sitting on top of the load. Police were directing traffic around it and people were watching and of course smoking. No evacuation! I also noted cracks in the section of the overpass where it was hanging. We had to take an alternate route and didn’t get home till 8:00. It was so, so hot on the bus. School tomorrow!
See pictures on Web album. http://picasaweb.google.com/colmac27
