Crazy for the rain!

Rain has been predicted for several weeks here in Cabo and finally yesterday it rained, for about 20 minutes. The clouds darkened, the wind picked up, lightening crackled and the kids went crazy. It reminded me of the first snowfall of the season in Minneapolis. There you are trying to teach your lesson and all the kids are at the windows screaming with delight. I was with my group of 9th graders and they begged to get out of the class to run around the campus in the rain. I, of course, agreed and they were out the door in a flash. I long ago learned you cannot fight mother nature. (Besides I wanted to run and close my car windows.) I was not the only teacher who let the kids out of class. Pretty much all were out dancing and screaming in the rain. Many of my high school kids went home because their clothes were wet, having stood under the downspouts coming off the roof. Oh to be young again!!


Harry comes home later today from his three week trip to England. Not an easy trip this time. Getting there and back took two days on each end including an overnight with Lex in NYC. He got a bad cold/cough once he got to England and has not completely shaken it. Grandma Olga is in very bad shape. She really needs to be in a nursing home setting using a wheel chair but she does not want to leave her home. Harry was able to secure her more and longer visits from care-workers, but she is at great risk of falling and not being able to get in and out of the bathroom, her chair and her bed while alone. Living a long life can be a good thing, but it can also be a terrible thing.


The air con in Patty's classroom has been broken for the past two weeks. We have shared my classroom and we have used other classrooms around the school when we can. Not an easy time. We are getting on each other's nerves a bit. Our styles are so different. It is a good thing she is a Libra and I have Libra rising or we would probably have killed each other by now. We have no idea why they cannot fix the air con. Everyday there is a new excuse. The owner of the school, Elsa, gave me a small purple Bible this week and in my thank you note I told her I was praying hard for Patty's air conditioner to be resurrected from the dead. Yesterday when I was using the 7th grade classroom the lights were out. I said to the kids it was a little dark and it must be hard for them to see what they were doing. They said the lights had been out all week and they liked it dark. Kids are great, much more adaptable than we adults.


We are beginning to book in the winter tourists here at the Baxter Cabo Hotel so let us know soon when you want to come to insure your suite is available. This year's accomodations include your own floor with bed/bath and balcony. Hope to see you soon!