2nd day of school in Mexico

I get to the school today to pick up the kids and hear a bunch of little children singing as loud as they can. It was so cute! Pure joy!! Then I am waiting for the forbidden door to be unlocked and see two chickens or roosters or something running around the courtyard. They let the chickens in but not the parents? Are the chickens the newest students? Then the door opens and Maestra (teacher) is going on and on about something. Gretchen and I are looking at each other saying, what the hell? Omar, her language tutor is there, thank goodness, so we ask what she is saying. He explains that two nurses came to the school to give the kids something to drink that would "kill the animals in their bodies". They clean the dishes with bleach but sometimes that isn't enough. We look at each other again and say, "what the hell?" roll our eyes and start laughing. All part of the experience.