Those Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days of Winter

In coastal Ecuador, the rainy season - winter - aligns with school vacation. Perhaps this is because winter brings with it flooding, disease, and days of such stifling heat that sitting in a classroom would have such deleterious effects on students as melting into a puddle.

School started this week, so everybody's back in class. But, this past weekend, to celebrate the last days of vacation - and the fact that we hadn't melted - we took some of the kids from the vacation course on a field trip to the Civic Center park and public pool.

One of the moms came and brought her littlest along.

I think I was more disappointed than the kids were that school is starting up again; they've been looking forward to seeing their friends and having busier days, while I will miss the flexible hours and all the time we spent together. Goodbye, vacation. It was nice knowing you.