Holidays
We’re coming into the home stretch for the first iteration of classes here.
The classes we’re teaching are actually a steadily advancing series of five courses which bring the Air Traffic Controllers to an increasing level of English usage and introduces more technical vocabulary as we go. Each set is 7 ½ weeks long, although with holidays and other reasons each one generally runs for 8 weeks.
For instance, this set we had a holiday for Simon Bolivar’s Birthday and another this Thursday, August 10, which is Ecuador’s version of Labor Day. They have holidays all over the place in Ecuador, and it is hard to keep track of. For instance, there are three Independence Days. There is the Independence Day for Guayaquil (celebrated on the day before Bolivar’s Birthday), then the Independence Day for Quito, and finally the national Independence Day.
Don’t get me started on Christmas Season celebrations.
So anyway, August 24 will be the last day of classes for this iteration. The students will get 10 days off while we recover and do paperwork.
The good news is we were supposed to travel back to the States to take care of some business at the time. Now, however, it looks like we won’t be going home after all. Instead, Lisa and I are playing with the idea of taking a trip to somewhere else in Ecuador, such as the Amazon Rain Forest, or Cartegena, Venezuela, Santiago, Chile or Buenos Aires, Argentina. We’ll see.
The classes we’re teaching are actually a steadily advancing series of five courses which bring the Air Traffic Controllers to an increasing level of English usage and introduces more technical vocabulary as we go. Each set is 7 ½ weeks long, although with holidays and other reasons each one generally runs for 8 weeks.
For instance, this set we had a holiday for Simon Bolivar’s Birthday and another this Thursday, August 10, which is Ecuador’s version of Labor Day. They have holidays all over the place in Ecuador, and it is hard to keep track of. For instance, there are three Independence Days. There is the Independence Day for Guayaquil (celebrated on the day before Bolivar’s Birthday), then the Independence Day for Quito, and finally the national Independence Day.
Don’t get me started on Christmas Season celebrations.
So anyway, August 24 will be the last day of classes for this iteration. The students will get 10 days off while we recover and do paperwork.
The good news is we were supposed to travel back to the States to take care of some business at the time. Now, however, it looks like we won’t be going home after all. Instead, Lisa and I are playing with the idea of taking a trip to somewhere else in Ecuador, such as the Amazon Rain Forest, or Cartegena, Venezuela, Santiago, Chile or Buenos Aires, Argentina. We’ll see.
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