And School is CANCELED - FOR THREE DAYS!!

El presidente Mauricio Macri declaró dos días de duelo nacional por la muerte del gobernador de Chubut, Mario Das Neves, quien falleció ayer a los 66 años .

I need to get a job as a teacher here.  From what I can tell, it ROCKS.  In public schools, the kids only attend 4 hours a day - SWEET DEAL!  And you get all sorts of federal holidays.  There are 12 solid weeks of summer vacation - RAD, and the teachers leave school at the same time as the kids.  I never see them staying late, and often they are walking out the door with the students.  None of the union contract, "You must be on campus for 30 minutes before and after school" crap-ola.

AND when the governor of your province dies - BAM!!!  More days off!!  This week, I was all ready to get some serious writing done while the kids were at school, and then, on Halloween night, the governor had to die and ruin the plan.  School was cancelled for Wednesday, AND Thursday, AND there is a federal holiday on Friday, so all of a sudden the kids have a FIVE DAY WEEKEND!!!  I may be in the mental institution by the end of it.



When the kids found out Wednesday morning, they were bummed - I could tell by the look on their faces that they were thinking, "What are we going to do with Mom for FIVE days?!?!  She is just going to give us more homework!"

Thank God we have made some friends; we enjoy mate together; the kids play, and we live a block from the beach where we can all get our energy out!