Day #3

         We visited the schools today! The first little school was just like a house. As I walked through the door I was stopped by two little girls who ran to give me a hug. It melted my heart. It was love at first sight in a sense. Then we walked down the road to the Javillar school, which is much bigger. They have kindergarten through third grade. The kindergarten kids were having a water day since it was the end of the first week. It was so fun to watch the play. Children are children no matter where they live and what circumstances they come from. We moved on to see the older kids classrooms. We got there right as the bell rang for recess. And let me tell you, I have never felt so popular in my life. We had kids swarming us, wanting to take pictures and play with our hair or give us hugs. It was amazing. I have only been here for a couple days, but I'm already in love with the kids.

            After a our school exploration we came back for lunch and decided to go to the beach. It was fun. I am not a huge fan salt water, but it felt really good to cool off. On the way back it was four of us girls. I have never heard so many cat calls in my life.. The men here are very friendly and I'm pretty sure the only English they know is "You are beautiful" and "come with me". Most of the time they rambled things in Spanish at us. I am very grateful for the three years of Spanish I took in high school. When I can understand most of what they say and shut them down it makes it a lot less stressful to walk the streets. Luckily the neighborhood where we are is pretty good. The people around all know who we are and have been blessed by the program so they welcome us and even protect us. I am extrremely grateful for that. We made it back safe and sound, it is also remarkable we didn't get lost. We had another teacher meeting to go over lesson planning and get our school assignments and stuff. I was assigned to the Isabelita school which is one of the smaller ones. I'm so excited!! By some lucky chance the first subject I get to teach is Drama. How perfect is that? We start teaching on Monday and I'm sure it's going to be chaos, but it will be great. 

Adventures of the day: breaking my chacos while walking down the street. The bottom floor flooding...(we are still working on this one)