Like this:

You can just not make a remix to the song School’s Out for the Summer with the words School’s Out for the Rainy Season. You can try if you want but I promise you won’t make it very far.

We closed the school for break on Thursday. It definitely does not feel like I’ve been a headmistress for an entire year. Ladies, I hope you all get the opportunity to have a job title that has the word mistress in it. Every time we close the school for break, we have a closing ceremony. Here is the basic agenda:

Assembly with the National Anthem and the Lord’s Prayer
Opening Remarks by Carrie
Devotional by Carrie
Reading of the Results
Announcements by Carrie
Closing Prayer by Carrie

Do you see a trend? It doesn’t always pay to be the headmistress. The reading of the results is really the only entertaining part of this entire ceremony. We read every student’s name and their ranking in their class based on their end of year exams. From Grade 1 – Grade 6, 264 names get read. You would think that maybe they would just read the top few from each class and allow all the failures to be mysteries but they don’t. You never know what will happen when they read the names – some kids cry, some kids do back flips, a kid actually took off running today screaming about how he didn’t want to hear his result (after he was ranked 11th in a class of 40). I am not saying that I take pleasure in their pain but truly, you can not speculate about what will happen during the reading of the results. It’s like going to the West Virginia Interstate Fair – there is no way you could guess what you would see there. I know that I don’t talk a lot about the school in the blog, even though it is how I spend the majority of my time. But, I am very happy with how the school is progressing. Work is far from finished there but the school has made great progress in a year. Our passing rates in each grade have increased, most by at least 50%! Students are attending regularly. And, the school actually looks like a school. I’m really proud of the teachers and all they have accomplished this year. I love that the community lets them know about it too. Parents will routinely come up to teachers and thank them that their child can read and speak English. That’s a big deal to a parent who can’t even do that themselves.

I’ll leave you with the quote that I heard Monday-Friday without fail at the school from the first and second graders:

“…give us this day, our daily breast and forgive us….”

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