Today, as with every recent Wednesday as mentioned in a
previous post, I am heading off to the local school to teach English. Well, this was the general idea anyway. Last week I was actually able to teach as school was in. The week before and this week there was no school.
Argentina is full of holidays. There are holidays for their heroes, holidays for their saints, holidays for their governors, holidays for religious reasons and seasons, and holidays for the oddest things. All of these holidays are reflected in offices, schools, and shops closing for the day. Everyone gets to enjoy this day of rest... well, most people anyway.
This week, heading to the school I discovered it was all closed up and locked tight. It turns out that today is the Day of the Guardian Angel. It is a celebration for all Catholics, started in 1608 when the Supreme Pontiff extended to all the Catholic Church the celebration of the Angels Guards, placing it on the 2nd of October.
All that this means however, is that I am not teaching English today. In fact, of the three weeks that I have turned up to teach, there has only been once that I was able to teach. The other time was not a holiday though, instead they were cleaning the floor of the building where I was supposed to be teaching, and cancelled all classes to do it. Seems a rather odd behaviour for a school, and makes me wonder about the students here... just how much education do they get?
Now I have to go... it is a day off. ;)