Our second day of school was infinitely better than the first. We still had about 15 kids cry at the beginning of the day but by lunch time, only one was still crying outside of class! The students are starting to figure things out and the teachers are getting to know their classes. Here are a few pictures, in no particular order, of the second day of Colegio Makarios:
Profe Lorena’s class is learning where the bathrooms are and how we use them
Morning Meeting time. Do you see how lovely that circle is?! They are working on learning each others’ names.
Anne, Charlie, Riley, Holly, Kendall, myself and Jody (when not helping Odilsia in the kitchen) have be spending our days holding kids who aren’t sure about being in school. In this picture, Anne is holding Danillo, who didn’t want to be in school for the first day and a half but then changed his mind and now loves it
Profe Ashley’s class had their Morning Meeting outside.
Profe Kim’s class is also learning names.
Merili, Nathaly, and Ariela walk into Profe Lorena’s class
Profe Kim’s class walking to their aula
We’re still working on lining up with their own class, but considering it was only the second day, I think that they are doing quite well
DarlingFrid gets ready to pray
Leury. The first day he came to school he had on a red Phat Farm shirt. Today he came in a Blue’s Clues shirt.
Everyone at the front of the school waiting to be called to get in line
Monday night, somewhere around the MonteLlano area, someone burned a sugar cane field. The result is that the entire ground is covered in cachipa, ash, and as the day goes on, it falls from the rooftops, tree, etc and go through the windows. Yesterday was a day covered in cachipa.
Jody has been helping out Odilsia in the kitchen
Odilsia has been working so hard to make breakfast and lunch for roughly 60 kids. Not to mention washing all their dishes and cleaning the school. And helping us with kids who don’t speak much Spanish but rather speak Haitian Creole. She has had 2 very full days.
Ok, so this is from the first day, but it’s too cute to not post. Cristina (teacher for Pre-K 1), Lauren (Lorena, teacher for Pre-K 1), Kendall (teacher’s aide), Ashley (teacher for Pre-K 2), and Kim (teacher for Pre-K 1)
