My school is the oddest school ever. For example, I have two more weeks and the kids in grade six have already graduated and they have no more school.So my, teacher Mr. Frank, has to find something for us to do and today he just said, "Get a dictionary and find the oddest words in it and write them alphabetical order". Then he just sat down at his desk chair and pulled out his laptop and played the game Plants vs Zombies and after a while kids started watching him and every time he would finish a level everyone would clap like it was a show. Oh he would get really mad at you when someone would wave their hand over the screen. I hope we do something better tomorrow.

fruit salid/bike race

A few days ago we played a game called fruit salad. Here's how we played it: one person would be up front in front of the board and his desk would be to the side, so there is one desk short. All of the kids are in teams and the teams' names would a be the name of a fruit. When the person up front called a team name, the people on the team he called would have to switch desks with each other. If the person up front had a team member in the front desk and if he called his team, he could switch desks with him and probably get him or her out. If the person up front called "fruit salad!", everybody would have to switch desks. Oh, and I forgot to tell you the way you get out is if you are the person who does not get a desk.

Oh, and a few months ago Jack and I went in a bike race. This race had people from the US, and Culican, which is the capital of this state. There was also a famous Mexican cross country rider. The temperature was over 30 degrees and it was so hot, it was like riding in an oven. This was Jack's second race he went in and it was my first race. I got 4th place and I beat my friend and Jack got 1st in his category. I won a medal and Jack won a trophy!!!

The only reason I'm writing today is because I'm sick and mom wants me to write more about the school. You see the schools here are completely different from home like some schools start at 6:50 but I start school at 8:00. Sometimes they make you wear gym clothes but you don't have gym. Or at another school they wanted a birth certificate and my original report cards. Oh, and everyone in my class sings "Happy Birthday to You" to me almost once a day because they all think it is my birthday. Another weird thing about school is that we have Spanish and everything except English in the morning and then we have recess (which I do nothing except eat and read) and then English.

Since I last wrote a lot of things have happened like I had a early birthday and I invited my whole grade which is only 24 kids. We have 5 pools in our compound so we used all of them and we "pool hopped" as dad called it and we play games for candy. Oh and the way they have a birthday here is completely different like that you don't open your presents until after the party and they have 10 happy birthday songs and you stick your head in the cake (which we didn't do).

oops

This is supposed to be my post about my party and new things that has happened but I accidentally deleted my first post so I have to write it again. So how we got here was because my family is in the proses of adopting a baby girl. So for us to do that we have to stay in Mexico for a year and go back to the place we got her in. Oh, I forgot to say our names. My name is Rob and I'm 10, my bother's name is Jack and he is 14, my mom's name is Carol and she is a teacher of the hard of hearing, and my dad's name is John and runs a small moving company.