Day 11 – School Day!

Today we started at the county elementary school. I didn’t know that teachers office and desks were all in the same room as an office. That is very different from how teachers have their rooms. I enjoyed being able to float from class to class and grade level. It was very helpful to have a translator who was very knowledgeable about that certain school. I was pretty terrified about have lunch with the students without a translator. Watching how the students set up the lunches was very overwhelming. The students knew the setup and step very well and very efficient about getting lunch set up and cleaned up. The teacher didn’t have to see the process over as much as I thought they would have. It was very difficult at first. I should have eaten all my lunch because I had to go somewhere else to throw it away. This was very different from the states were we have a whole staff and room set aside for lunch.

Afterward, a small group of girls showed me around the school. Communication became much more manageable as time went on. The girls showed me how they did their classroom jobs of cleaning up the classroom. Watching the kids clean up the classroom, I realized how it was so very different from how kids clean their classroom in the states. I think kids respect how they treat the environment around them.