Vacation Days

Ibu Sri and her husband should be at the doctor right now. Praying hard!

In other news, I was just doing some lesson planning and after consulting the school calendar, I realized that this week is a 4 day week, next week is a 4 day week, the week after that is a 4 day week, and the week after THAT is also a 4 day week. Then we have three normal weeks, then another 4 day week. After that comes a normal 5 day week, then spring break - no school for a whole week!

After spring break, we have a four day week, a regular week, two more four day weeks, followed by five normal weeks (that's gonna seem like a long stretch with no breaks!), finals and graduation on the 24th of May. And then summer break!!

Teaching in a foreign country is the best if you're looking for lots of vacation days. We take off American holidays (bc we're an American school), Indonesian holidays (bc we're in Indonesia), Muslim holidays (bc many of those are also Indonesian national holidays), quarter breaks, semester breaks, fall break, spring break, Christmas break, summer break, Chinese New Year, athletic tournament breaks, and more! Now we just need to get on board with the Hindu and Buddhist holidays, because we have some of both at our school. So out of respect to them, I mean, we should really look into it.

And oh yeah - when I taught in Kenya, sometimes the president would randomly declare, "Tomorrow is a holiday! Nobody go to work!" So we would all stay home. It made planning kind of hectic, but who doesn't enjoy getting to randomly sleep in on a Wednesday?