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Thursday the 11th of September 2008, also known as “Día del maestro”. My day began with my Spanish lessons, not knowing that we would not have a break. Around 12 o'clock I looked for the first time at my watch, and decided that I really wanted to have a break, because usually we should already have had one, one hour earlier. But at this exact moment Federico, my teacher, told us we could leave.
When we came downstairs the teachers began to tell us to go outside, so I thought ´just another birthday; congratulations!´ Only this time I saw the table football, a wooden thing with holes in it and a frog on it, a twister, a ping pong table, and a table with some bowls on it. And then finally a bell began to ring: `It's Thursday, so this has to be the ´Día del Maestro´. I often have this feeling of memory loss over here; forgetting which day and date it is. Days pass by with the speed of light, and before you know it, it is weekend again.
Then there was a speech held by one of our teachers, telling us this day was the day of the teachers, and that this is a very important day in Argentina. In the Netherlands we also have ´lerarendag´, but not as important as over here. Every teacher formed a team with 4 students, trying to win one of the first 3 places to win ´a surprise´.
My team started off with table football, which not exactly turned out to be a great success. Anyway, we did our best. Next game would be the game at the table with the bowls, which I already feared from the beginning, and it turned out that this was not without reason. We had to get candies out of this bowl filled with flour... with our mouth. Melville started to try to get the candies, which he did very well, so Olivia and I thought it would be a nice idea to let him do the rest as well. He was under flour anyway. But, unfortunately, we had to try it as well. I can tell you, once but no more. It was good fun though, because Melville turned out to be a white guy instead of the coloured Englishman he was before.
Next would be ping pong, which was hilarious. Two teachers, women (no offence), played against each other, but had some problems hitting the table. We won, and Twister was next. Although we lost Twister, it was good fun!
Last but not least, was the game with the frog. We had to throw the coins into the holes, in the frog, or in a `man's mouth´. Unfortunately we were not very successful in this game either.
We turned out to be last. Well, it is just a game anyway, isn't it?
Written by Melvin Van Der Veen
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