First day in School

I was certainly nervous. It has been a long time since I started a new job and also to have a boss. Charlotte does not like to be decribed as the boss but she cannot come up with a better word. Anyway, it was meet a 7.15 to get into the pickup for the journey into the hills. The roads are the same as in Costa Rico, so it is bumpy.
My fear was very much of the unknown so I was vas anxious when we arrived. There were no children there. Charlotte had explained that it was not proper school time, that starts in February, so she was running Summer School. After the gates wwere opened, two smiling children came down the road. Holas all round and we then started to sweep out the classrooms, the dust is amazing and the leaves were all over the playground. There is no glass in the windows so everything can blow in. The chickens from the houses next door were happily pecking around.
After that we set down to read some books. It is also important part of the project that the Children get fruit each day so Charlotte had bought plenty of fruit so at the end of the day, Rosa and JoseLuis went home with a melon each. They are as delightful as Charlotte had promised as you can see. I felt as though this was not really the first day so I am still anxious.
On the second day there were five children, we now had Otto, Carlos and Samuel also. We did a world map jigsaw so they could see where England was and we played a card game Go Fish. I still feel as though I have not started work but I guess that will not happen until Feb when the proper school starts. there are pictures of Rosa and JoseLuis from the first day above




By the way,they get their school uniform from another charity.