Feliz Navidad!!



Well we are getting ready to make our trip back to the U.S. in a few days. Friday was the last day of class. It was a very crazy, but fun day! It will be so weird to not having school for 3 weeks. Brent and I love living in Puerto Rico, and talk about how lucky we are to have this experience all the time. We will miss our friends and home in PR, but we are very excited to be back in the United States for Christmas. Here are what we are looking forward the most about our trip:
1. To see our family!! Of course!!
2. To get clothes right out of the dryer when they are still warm ( we hang dry our clothes)
3. Carpeted floors
4. Hot water
5. Bathtubs
6. Restaurants ( Sonic, Taco Johns, more)
7. Normal drivers ( for the most part)
8. Target

Happy Holidays to everyone!!
Love,
The Dills

Staff Christmas Party!
On Wednesday we had our staff Christmas party. Everyone talks about how much fun they are...and they are right!! My legs hurt so bad today from all the dancing I did! Everyone seemed to be having a good time. We left around midnight..but others stayed until 2! You should have seen us today..we were all pretty tired. I am not sure why they had it on a school night. Tomorrow is our school Christmas program! Should be fun! I was so busy talking and dancing to everyone that I forgot to take pictures and eat dinner! (pretty good party if I pass up food!)haha :) Can't wait to see some of you!
Brent and Katie

Singing and Dancing all the time!!

We are beginning to count down the days til Christmas. These weeks just go by so fast. Brent and I were busy last week getting our classes ready for their Christmas concert. We have to teach them a song or dance for the program on Friday. Brent's class is singing " Santa Claus is Coming to Town" and my class is doing a mix of songs. We have been doing Christmas Around the World last week, so each student picked a different country and they are going to dress like the country, hold a flag, and wear a banner. Should be fun. On Tuesday there was a big art show in Old San Juan, so Kelly, Tori, Mary, and I went. I love Old San Juan, it was beautiful with all the lights and the big cruise ships. We did a little Christmas shopping too. We didnt get home til around midnight! Thursday a friend of ours started bartending at this restaurant, she asked if we would come visit her. We thought we would stop by for a drink, but ended up singing karaoke and staying past 11! Friday we were invited to a formal dinner at the rotary club. A group of us went, but we were by far the youngest people there. Good music and dancing though. It was also fun to get all dressed up. We had a lot happen this week. THe worst thing was that on Thursday Kelly's mom called her to tell her that her grandpa passed away. So sad. Kelly ended up leaving today and won't be back until January. There will be a sub for her this week. It was sad saying good bye to her. It will be so weird not seeing her for an entire month. I am used to seeing her many times each day. This week will go by fast too. Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday the students get out at 11:00. We have our staff Christmas party on Wednesday, and then we are going to have a little pool party on Thursday. The kids last day of school is Friday and then we are finished on Tuesday. Brent and I fly to Colorado on the 20th and then fly to Dallas on the 23rd, back to Colorado on Dec. 31, then back home to PR on Jan. 7th! The dogs will be making the trip to Colorado with us. Brent's dad is going to spay and nueter the puppies during the break. We hope they will do okay with the weather change.They are not going to know what all the white,cold stuff is!! Have a great week everyone!

It is starting to feel like Christmas!!

This week just flew by. It was a little hard to get back into the groove of things, after having a week off for vacation. Brent had a good week of celebrating his birthday...YES, he celebrated it all week! He got a total of 4 cakes throughout the week. His students kept bringing in cakes and presents for him. We had his birthday party Friday night and invited all of the teachers over. It was a good time. On Saturday we went back to Ponce. We had just been there last week with my parents, but we wanted to go back at night because the Plaza is covered with lights. It was very nice. Kelly and I had a charicture drawing of the two of us..it was pretty fun. I kept looking around while he was trying to draw my face..when I saw the picture, I noticed that he drew me looking off to the side!! How funny! We made him do another one so that we could each have one. We ate at a nice restaurant and then when to the board walk. At the board walk we saw huge fish that we could feed sardines. Yucky..but the fish liked them! Today was also very busy. One of the teachers wanted to take us to a restaurant to try conch ( the creature that lives in the huge seashells), we found a nice restaurant on the ocean. I liked the conch..Brent had chicken ( not a big seafood person). Today we went to the lighting of the Christmas lights in our Plaza in Guayama. WOW!! It was so much better than I thought it would be. It is beautiful! So many lights. The wierdest thing was not wearing a coat or sweater while looking at Christmas lights outside, I kept thinking a should be getting my coat to go outside. It did feel like Christmas though. There were so many people, vendors, and fireworks. How festive!! I can't believe that we will be in Colorado in 2 1/2 weeks!! We are getting so excited to see everyone!