My Teacher's Kids and About School

This week has been kind of busy with planning for next week, when Jenn and I start co-teaching our literary unit full time. On top of it, we do zumba and we're training for the World's Best 10K on my momma's birthday (Feb 26).
Thursday, though, we skipped work outs because our teacher wanted us to meet her kids. She has a daughter who is 23 and a son who is 25 and they own their own cafe/coffee shop in a hotel in Isla Verde. So after school, she took us there. She always feeds us so much when we go out, and we got to have dinner pool side at the hotel. I got chicken with a mashed plantain sort of thing. Then, we hung out with her son at the cafe and had some really good tea. They get these herbs grown right on the island to make it, and my teacher mixes hibiscus, mint, and lemon tea together and it tasted awesome. We both had 2 cups. They also gave us gelato (Jenn and I shared coconut and nutella cookie) and some muffins. As her son was closing up, our teacher had us help him clean by washing the dishes and counters. She always volunteers us for work, but we don't mind because she already has done so much for us and we still have fun while we work. My teacher is also going to law school and had a class that night, but she decided she wanted to skip it so we got to take our time there.
Later, our friend Abby had met some other students at UPR that wanted to take us out, so we decided to hang out with them that night. We went to Condado, which is a ritzier part of the island, and went to this really nice ocean front club with draped white sheets and a beautiful view. We were surprised at how nice it was; it was like one of those places you would film a music video at. They decided to take us somewhere in Old San Juan after, though, and it was this crappy hole in the wall with graffiti all over the walls and everything. It was just so random how we went from one extreme to the next.
Today, Friday, we went on our first "field trip" with the kids. Tomorrow, they have to take a big test called the "PIENSE" which determines their level of learning for when they go on to high school. They have been studying for about a month and working really hard, so the teachers made sure to make today fun for them. The math teacher actually brought in balloons for the class to blow up and write things on about the test and then we counted down to pop them all together. It was fun and the kids loved it. Then, they got to tear up and destroy their test review booklets. With my teacher, though, we took them to the market for some milk shakes. The kids loved it and it was cool to see the market, which reminded me of the West Side Market in Cleveland. They scoop fresh fruit and milk into the blender to make the shakes.
School gets out at 1 on Fridays instead of 3 pm so we got to go to the pool and lay out a bit. Tonight we're going to the mall for sushi and shopping. My poor silver flats that I always wear are broken and I need to get a new pair :/. Hopefully we'll get out to the beach tomorrow for some more sun!