1, 2, 3 “SAAAYY WHAAAAAAT?” 1, 2, 3 “SAAYYY WHAAAAAT?”

So teacher’s day was interesting to say the least. It was kinda like harry potter movies 5 and 6. You wait soooooo long for them and the build up is sooooooooo hyped, and then the day finally comes and it’s just like WAHHHHH WAHHHHHHHHH… so our school has been talking about the big teacher’s day celebration since 1st trimester. How much we had to pay, what we wanted the shirts to look like, where we wanted to go, what we wanted to eat, can you bring family yaddhi friggin yaddha. So its been talked about for so long and at great length during every one of our teachers meetings so it was pretty hyped up and we had to pay 1000mts ($30) which is a lot for us and for our fellow colleagues with these grand promises of how amazing it was going to be. Well the big day comes around and we were told to be at our school by 7am. We got there at 7am sharp and there’s only one other teacher there. Finally by 8am most teachers are there and now we’re supposed to go to the Teacher’s Union office for a short ceremony. The walk there was about 5 min and then another 10minutes for the short ceremony. Then we had to wait around til 9am to walk to the praca for the town ceremony. Well we get there and we have to wait til the administrator gets there and that doesn’t happen til about 9:45. Finally the ceremony ends and it is HOT and we finally pile into our chapas that will take us to the beach. Mind you until yesterday we thought that today was the main event and all eating/drinking was going to take place today… not so much. We so we’re on our way and all the teachers minus maybe 4 of us, have started drinking… beers, gin, whisky, pretty much whatever they could get there hands on before leaving and conveniently the chapa picked us up in front of the town liquor store. It was like being with a bunch of teenagers who were let loose and drinking for the first time in their lives except they can take it down like WOAH. So it’s rowdy and they said we (von and i) had to come up with our chapa’s team name so von came up with team “SAY WHHAAAAAAT?” and we taught it to them just saying it with sooo much attitude and it just stuck... So that every 4 minutes someone would scream ‘1, 2, 3’ and everyone would yell out “SAYYY WHAAAAAAAAAAA?” about 5 times in a row and then wait another 5min and do it allllll over again. It was also yelled every time we passed a car, or the other chapa. We were also stopping every 30 minutes to restock their quickly diminishing booze supply. Anyway we FINALLY make it to the beach and that was a disaster and a half cuz no one knew where exactly we were supposed to go, but we finally make it to our destination and everyone runs out to the beach. Oh yeah also Mozambicans don’t really understand the concept of swimwear. So out of everyone who went, there were like 5 girls and 30 boys. Well almost all the men just wore their whitey tighty undies. It was funny cuz even the one teacher who I was like ‘oh he has some legit board shorts’ took em off as soon as we got there and jumped in with just his undies. All of this might have been more enjoyable or at least tolerable had we been drunk, but alas… it was mostly painful. So we swam a little too and bumped the volleyball around a lil before it busted its gut and died, and then we stuffed ourselves silly with our packed lunches of fried rice, grilled chicken, salad and fries before taking one last dip, drying off then comin back. It was a really really really long day and I was completely drained and all I wanted was to get home and sleep, but mind you this was a Tuesday and we had to get ready for school the next day… awesome. So that was teacher’s day celebration #1. The second came on Saturday. The notice about the event said it would start at 7pm at the ‘club,’ which basically looks like a middle school gym, but another teacher tells us not to show til 8pm cuz it would probably start late. So we get there around 8 and of course it hasn’t started so we go to the bar next door to grab a few beers. 9pm rolls around and we make our way back to the club and still not showing signs of life… so we wait around inside and finally at 9:30 they call our names one by one and the event begins! So our director and one other pedagogical director don’t show up and so the MC for the night says a few words then introduces the other two ped directors and also the administrator who then says a few words and then it’s time to eat! By the time we get our food and they wash our hands it’s 11pm and we get pretty much the same packed dinner of fried rice, grilled chicken, salad and fries, but this time we also have to eat sans utensil haha. There’s also no table and we’re balancing our tray on our knees, beer in one hand and trying to pull chicken off the bone with the other… it was super awkward and just the set up of the event was like a middle school dance in the gym. When we’re done eating they clean up and then it’s time to dance. Seriously though world’s worst DJ in the history of DJing… Mozambicans I feel will generally dance to anything and even they were complaining that it wasn’t good dance music. And he starts with slow dance songs and of course everyone wants to see the foreigners up dancing so everyone tries to get us to go up and we’re like woah woah no thank you, but after a while we couldn’t refuse any longer and danced… also awkward. Finally some better dance music comes on and we boogie and I tried to request von’s new favorite song ‘Amazing’ by Inna, but they didn’t have it… it’s like this super hyped club song that Mozambicans LOVE so it was pretty much a crime that this DJ didn’t have it… that pretty much put us all in a spiral of disappointment and set the mood for the rest of the night. However the night was redeemed for vonnie when she was introduced to the love of her life. His name is ‘ray’ and he is a year old and he was the chubbiest happiest cutest little baby ever! Haha he’s the son of one of the teachers we like more and so megan and I lost von to baby ‘ray’ for the rest of the night. Anyway I was already tired before the party even started, so by the end of it at like 1:30am, I was BEAT. I think I woulda had more fun if I just wasn’t so friggin tired! Oh yeah also, each person was supposed to get 10 beers, and I mean really who drinks 10 beers at a formal teacher function with family, so between the three of us we had 6 and brought 14 beers back home with us. We’re set for the next month I’d say! So this week is trimester finals, and then next week is our LAST WEEK OF SCHOOOOOOOOOOOOL!!!!! We just have to get a grades in and then we’re DONE! DONE DONE DONE!!! Well almost… we may have to proctor some national exams but other than that we’re done!!! Also von’s birthday is coming up so I gotta get on getting her the bestest birthday present ever! Slightly limiting here in moz but I’m working on it. Also her birthday is on Halloween so we’re gonna have an awesome costume party so we’ve been on the prowl for some gems to get dressed up in, however I don’t think anything will beat my chun-li outfit from last year! okok i think that’s about it from me today, but more to come soon! miss everyone so much!

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