Fiesta Time

I now know why I moved to Latin America to teach...the fiestas.  So on Friday my school had the first of many TGIF parties.  Basically, the school administration hosts parties through out the year on Fridays.  The school provides the drinks, music, and dance floor (the canteen) and the teachers all bring appetizers to share.  Man do Venezuelans know how to party. Unfortuantely I am still not allowed to drink because of some of the medication that I had to take while I was sick, but it was still a lot of fun.  The party started with a barrel full of beer at 3 o'clock as soon as the students left. This is a picture of a group of the female teachers when the party started.  We all ate food and mingled and around five the real party started becuase all of the students had finally left.  The bottom left  picture is a few of the administrators and department heads hanging out at the party.  The party moved up to the Canteen and we cleared the lunch tables and created a dance floor.  Next thing you know everyone from teachers, administrator, bus drivers, and cleaning staff were on the dance floor.  Several cases of beer and songs later the whole staff was dancing the night away.  Which you can see in the photo below.We were finally kicked off campus around 8:30 but the party was simply moved to another teacher's apartment.  We continued dancing and drinking until around midnight.  I don't know how I am going to keep up with all the drinking once I can again.  Loving life here in Venezuela!