Day 36: Bike Races and Guatemala

This past Friday our school had it's anual bike race. The school is split up into houses, kind of like Harry Potter! Each house has a certain amount of students from each standard in it, and they all have a specific house color that they dress in on their fun days. They have challenges to earn points, and also get points for their house for things like being on the honour roll. Two kids were chosen from each standard from each house for the race. It was a lot of fun, but also a lot of chaos! It was so hot out that some of the kids were collapsing after the race. Katie, Melissa, and I were the judges, and so after the first, second, and third kids would cross the line, we would have to chase them and find out the house that they belonged to, and what their names were. This was fine for the older kids, but one of the younger kids that got first was so overwhelmed by all of the people around him and the fact that he got first, that when I asked him his name, he just looked at me and said, "I can't remember". I waited a minute, but when he still couldn't remember, I took him to find a teacher that knew him. Poor little guy:)

This weekend is Katie's parent's last weekend with us, so we decided to go to Guatemala for the day. We went to a town called Livingston. It wasn't anything too special. Mostly just little shops to look in, and a nice hotel that we snuck into for a swim (sorry Chris!). It takes about an hour by boat to get to Livingston, and holy was the ride ever rough! Every place we go I always think about whether or not I would bring my parents, and this was a definite NO. We're lucky that no one jarred their back out of place on this ride. We are planning on spending a week of our Easter break in Guatemala, so we don't plan on basing our opinions on this short trip.