party.

i know i´ve aleady talked some about the school i´m working in but i thought i´d go into more detail. it´s a really quaint little school. the front door is a huge rickety blue door with an old fashion lock on it. once you walk in the school yard there are 3 buildings. the one on your immediate right is the 3 year old classroom, the 4 yr olds room A and the kitchen. on the left is the 4 yr old class B room. across the yard is another building for the 5 year olds classes A and B. the yard has two little slides, a miniature monkey bar, and two circular concrete patios- libby and i wrote in chalk all over it and made a little hopscotch game. the kids love that.

i have been working with the 5 year olds. they are sooooo precious. today i wrote in their notebooks for their homework. we´re learning numbers 1-10 right now. today was "ocho." the school likes to use stamps so i stamped 8 little stars and wrote "¿cuantas estrellas hay?" there was a place to write a lot of 8s.

so tomorrow in school we´re having a little fiesta to celebrate the students. today we got out at about 11 which is an hour and a half early so that the teachers could blow up balloons. there were a million it seemed like. we linked them all together so that it made an arch. there´s a new guy working there named Alex. he does a lot of the grounds work in the tiny yard and helps clean stuff. he´s really sweet.

i´m going to sad when i leave the kindergarten because already the kids will see me in the street and yell at the top of their squeaky little lungs, "profe, profe!" it helps me feel like i´m doing something good. i think that was the whole point of this trip, so i must be doing ok.