Feb 3, 2006: changeless weather, championships and a pizza prize

Good Day All,

I can honestly say that after 6 months I would trade anybody’s 25 below wind chill for our 85 degrees and 90% humidity for a day. Another teacher here calls his forehead the “permasweat”. It hasn’t rained here since thanksgiving and all the roads are pure dust. Many people take this opportunity when the world is a cinder box to burn off their gardens and little corn patches. I haven’t seen any get away but the smoke is just thick in the air. It gets old after a while.

The varsity girl’s team had the semifinal game on Friday. The other team didn’t show up so after 40 minutes everybody piled in and went over to see the boy’s soccer play their playoff game. It was against the roughest team in the league and much blood was shed but we upset them 3-2. The other team argued every call and were such poor sports that they poured dirt over the refs head after the game. They were still arguing after everybody else had left including the ref who we gave a ride back into town.

Saturday was supposed to be finals for both teams but we got a call early at home that changed our basketball game time to an hour later so my girls team and I went over to see the start of the game. W expected them to play La Gaiete but we found out that that team had won their semifinal game but started a brawl afterwards with the other team. Both teams were kicked out of the league so our boy’s team won the title by forfeit. Not exactly the way you want to win but its still a trophy.

The girls played great defense and after fighting off a late rally managed to win by 7. I was very proud of how they played and they deserved it. We had all the fans from the boy’s soccer game at the end so it was nice. Betsy and I went out to dinner to celebrate. I ordered a ham and pineapple pizza and the waitress didn’t believe me. I managed to talk her into it and it wasn’t bad.

School is going well and we have an accreditation team from the states coming in a few weeks to snoop around and make sure we actually do teach kids stuff. Tension is a little high because of that but we are getting by.

Betsy’s wish has come true. I am done with coaching for the year. Maybe now we can have dinners on time.

Thanks and God Bless.
Brian & Brian