Picture Mania

It has been awhile since I last blogged and in the past week I have taken lots of pictures! We were able to bring our cameras to the school this week so I thought I'd let you meet my class and get a better idea of the school. The kids had a talent show this Friday so I included some pictures from that. Much like last week, this week was also extremely busy. On Monday we went out to the streets with the school's founder again. This time many of the girls got to see some of their students. It was just as impactful the second time around as it was the first time.

On Wednesday I had a major reality check when one of my students lost his shoe. He was playing soccer, kicked the ball and he shoe flew off his foot and went over one of the walls that surrounds the school. He was sitting by the wall crying when I found him. At first I thought this is an easy fix we can just ask the people on the other side of the wall to give the shoe back. It turns out though that the people who live on the other side of the wall don't like the school there and often won't give balls and things back that fly over. Not only this but I also realized that this might be one of his only pairs of shoes. As myself and another one of the teachers was trying to calm him down the bell rang signaling that he had to return to class. He got up and hopped on one foot back to class so his over foot wouldn't get wet or dirty. At that point I lost composure and started crying. The reality of how some of my students live hit me like a ton of bricks. As the day progressed we began the search for shoes and luckily by the end of the day we were able to locate a pair and he went home with two shoes:-)

Also this week we began following a schedule maped out by our homeroom teacher that gave us an idea of what content they would like us to cover. This made planning a little bit easier because we were at least given a topic and simply had to plug in some activities. Below are some pictures of our school (Apoyate En Mi).

My class after the talent show

Maria and Jose

Antony working on his traffic signals

Gerson...he's a cutie pie:-)

                                                                               Wilson

                                               Beatriz

Melanie

Yoselin