Well we have been in the schools for three days now and this has been and will be a busy week. The students at Ambergris Caye Elementary are testing all week so there hasn't been too much going on but I think we have all gotten to know our teachers a little better and also gotten to know the students in the school. There are only about 50-60 students total at the school so it is much more personal than a normal elementary school. I have been helping out with typing up tests and things like that during the day. Today I was able to work with the students after lunch. I passed around some pictures of my class back home and told them about the project I had done with those students. I was able to give them letters and friendship bracelets from my partnership class back in the states. The students read their letters they were given and were able to learn a little bit about the other class I had been working with. The students also responded to the letters so that I will have some to take back with me. Tomorrow hopefully we will be able to make some friendship bracelets that I can also take back. The schools here are much less structured that I am used to. They have a legit bell that a teacher or student rings when it is time for snack, lunch, or the end of the day. Most of the children just hang out around the school playground or in the classroom until their parents get their to take them home. People around here either walk or drive golf carts. The only cars you really see are vans that are taxis. The school is very small with only seven classes. I am in infant II which is like second grade back in the states. Their are only 8 students in the class that I am working in and two of them are eight and the others are six. The teacher that I am working with is Ms. Mandy and she is very nice and compassionate. I am looking forward to my time here in the schools and I am just going to do my best to make myself useful! This evening we went to a birthday party for one of the children of the teachers at the junior college. He was turning two and they went all out for it. There was backyardigans stuff everywhere! It was very cool and they were so nice to invite us all. The people here are nothing but nice! Tomorrow those of us who are at Ambergris Caye will be helping out at the festival of arts. Everything is going well.
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