Just a quick follow up since as it turns out I was a little alarmist on friday night...
All my kids are staying afterall, and the cancelled-classes doesn't apply to them. In fact, it doesn't precisely apply to anyone, but most of the other students were told that they can go home for the next month if they want and therefore do not have to go to classes. This does affect most of the other trainee's classes. Only 7 of us will continue totally as planned and most of the others are anticipating that their classes will be decimated come class-time tomorrow. I guess we'll see what happens.

And naturally, as soon as the decision was made to hold this unofficial break, the heat spell broke with an enormous round of thunderstorms friday afternoon/evening and it's been practically cool for the last two days.

In other news, today I bought some peanut butter :)