Students hunt

25/03/2011

Short night! At 1:40am my phone rang, one of the students got sick and the host family wanted to let me know about it. I spoke with Andrew and he told me he didn't want to go to see the doctor yet and wanted to wait until the morning. I phoned the teachers at their place but of course who would pick up the phone at 2am?? Especially when you are not staying at your place!

At 6am the teachers got my message and they decided to take the student to see the doctor. At 6:30 we all met at the emergency. With luck it's not to far from my appartment so I was able to be there really quickly. Andy had the same symptoms than Beccy: very hot, stomach ache and a big headache and was also vomiting. The last factor deshydrated him completely and the doctor had to give him 2 AV, 1 only serum and the other one was a sugary serum. He had to spend 3 hours in the room to receive the two serums. I went back to the school to take care of the other students. Guy-Jo stayed with him while Rochelle came with me to take a hot shower in my appartment. She doesn't have hot water at her place and got used to taking one at my place. Guy-Jo also got used to taking a shower at my appartment. So when Roshelle finished her shower, she went to the clinic to look after the kid and to allow Guy-Jo to go to having his hot shower! Things like that only happen to me :D

We then went back to the school to take other classes. I let the students get inside and I stayed outside to read a bit. We had a nice lunch at Donde Henry. I saw that Alex wasn't looking well but he told me he was allright and didn't want to speak more. Knowing him, it wasn't strange so I didn't insist....I should hav... At 5pm his tica mum called me to tell me that Alex wasn't well at all and that he had fever and headache...;back to the clinic with the 3^rd student... What do I do to them? Nothing, I promise ;-)

Calling the teachers once again and back all together to the emergency. Same virus for Alex! Back home for him with simple medecine: Powerade (fyi=energetic drink) and sleep.

The two teachers had decided that today the kids could go out until 9pm if they were with their family in order to see an important basketball game at Mate Cana. The kids were smart...very smart! They knew that the teachers had invited me to dinner at 7pm BUT what they didn't know where we were going to go.  It was already 7pm when we came out of the emergencies and Guy-Jo wanted also to see the game, we decided to go to Mate Cana to have dinner there.

When we entered...none of the kids were there and the owner just told us "yes 6 where there but they left in the middle of the first part, at 7pm, we thought it was a bit strange because the game was interesting"...Smatr kids! They stayed there long enough in the bar to be sure that if the teachers came to check before going eating, they would see them watching the game...as they should have been...They didn't know we were late because of Alex... Quite scared not knowing where they were, we went to the centre of Santa Elena to do a student's hunt! Not so funny.... LOL We finished by finding the 3 girls inside an information center using the bathroom. When we asked them where their families were and why they were there, the only answer was "we needed to use the bathroom" LOL..no bathroom at home????....

We sent them back home in a cab and kept looking for the others. We already knew that 3 of the 15 wouldn't break the rule so were surely at home, 2 were at home (when I phoned the family to tell them they could go out until 9pm, 2 told me there weren't going to go out because had familiy activities already planned), 2 were sick, 3 were caught so we needed to find the 3 "gansters". My heart jumped when I saw Gabriel in the city center "what was he doing in the city center? I was sure he wouldn't break the rule" I shouted his name, he turned back and wasn't at all frightened to see me, a second later, crossing the road was his mama tica. We were right: he wouldn't have broken the rule: he was with his tica mum and they were going to have a drink where the father was working. ;)

5 minutes later we found the boys and they tried to argue but they had no way of doing so: they were alone, in the city center, they knew they were in trouble. We sent them all in a cab: O gosh, 16-year old are worse than 6-year old!!

Once we knew that everyone was at home or at least with their family, we went to have dinner at Mate Cana. It was nice, we spoke about the kids but also life in the States and in Europe and about a bit of everything. At 10pm, Roshelle and I took a cab to go back home and Guy-Jo stayed a bit longer in the bar. The taxi stopped first at Roshelle's place and then drove me back to the school. I had a great surprise waiting for me: behind the gate, Royner was there. The gate was closed and he didn't have the keys to go out!!!!!! I was just in time to help him!! We spoke during a while. I was very tempted by his offer to go back to the city center to have a drink and keep speaking but I was strong enough to decline his offer: I was very tired and Alex might need to go back to the emergency during the night: the best to do was to go to bed as soon as possible to be able to get up at 3 am if needed! I should have gone because no one was sick during the night and I slept as a baby until 6am...Well it will be for another time!