Thursday, April 9, 2009

unexpected school events

so before heading to our schools we warned that often ourschools would have events that we wouldn't know about

Today I got to the school at eight expecting to teach six classes for the day. Instead the school had a mass that last for two classes and then everybody ate grapes, hot chocolate and bread which lasted for another class. I was told by somebody that these foods were Catholic symbols. I understand the symbolism of the grapes and bread but the hot chocolate ? God is sweet and warm? I asked around and found out that the hot chocolate was just a school tradition. Originally, the many of the students who went to the school were poor and so the school gave them hot chocolate as a way of getting the students to drink milk. I believe today was also the first time I ever non seedless grapes

5 comments:

  1. I am laughing at this "God is sweet and warm" comment. If only one of my Catholic schools has subscribed to this theory!

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  3. wow...3 classes of eating instead of class? sign me up

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  4. haha you misread ... 2 class of mass and one class of eating

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