Things that didn't go exactly as planned!

All of the students are enrolled in an international studies class taught by Rhonda. She takes them on all sorts of trips around the city and brings in special guest speakers which is really cool. This is the same class that the Tango teachers came to. Well yesterday, was a field trip to El Cerro, the hill of Montevideo that was fortified and is now a symbol of the city and Uruguay. It also happens to be a great look out over the city... well usually. A cloud had descended on El Cerro, and the view wasn't so great. (You can see the view in the picture with the girls.) So instead, we went into the fort. There were lots of weapons and such. I think most of our attention was focused on the weather though.

Afterwards, we went to see some other sights, but as it was raining we weren't too excited to get out and see stuff. We did go to another museum, which had some of the more famous works of Uruguay... but as on par with the day... many of the paintings were on display at the capital.

Poor Rhonda... she had a great trip planned but the weather just didn't cooperate. We may have to repeat the trip on a day when we can actually see some thing.

The other thing that didn't go quite as planned was a student's basketball game. This led to our first student injury. One of the boys was playing and just turned wrong. He managed to dislocate his kneecap. At best he's sprained his knee at worst he tore a tendon/ ligament. Please pray that its just a sprain. He's holding up pretty well considering he's so far from home and having to deal with something that really hurts. We should know more after he goes to the doctor tomorrow.