Day Three: March 23, 2012

I would rank today as being one of the most amazing days of my life.  I am never been so inspired and exhilarated before!!  

Yummy!!

 We started the day at George's having breakfast.  I have the "Belizean Breakfast" which included eggs with tomatoes, peppers, and onions, fresh sausage, toast, and watermelon, along with the most delicious coffee I have ever had.  We had a great conversation during breakfast about our educational beliefs and how different our experience over the next five weeks will be different than our past ten weeks.  The more we talked the more excited I got.
We left breakfast, and traveled through town and dropped off children's books to be donated to the local library.  She was very appreciative and I hope we get a chance to interact with the students who are going to benefit from the books.  After that we continued our LONG walk to San Pedro High School, the only high school on the island. Today was an "open day", meaning the school was open to the community and the students presented all sorts of projects and presentations filled with everything they have learned.  We were able to go in and out of classrooms playing the games and watching the presentations.  The students were so excited and proud of themselves, and that was so overwhelming but in the best way possible.  I feel that I needed to see students excited about their education, because you don't see that very often in the schools back home.  

Number game :)

Each room was a different subject and the math room was awesome!! We started with an activity that a young man showing us a cool number game where if you start with one number you can get back to a 3 digit number that was the number you started with and the other two is your age.  I would love to take this activity back home.  The next activity was "get the scoop on percentages" where you have to match the cone (fractions) with the ice-cream scoop (percentages).  The best part about the day is that the students explained each part of their activity to you and it really showed that the students knew their material.  I wish that I could put into words how awesome of an experience it was to be in that environment.  
After the high school, we visited one of the elementary schools. It was really cute, but the high school interns stayed back to keep the crowd down.  
Then we went to lunch which was another hole in the wall.  The food was amazing again, and I have decided that the burritos are so good because the shells are all homemade and fluffy.  If I knew how to make those I would eat it for every meal haha!
Tonight we are hanging out at Pedro's because there is going to be live music and seafood paella!