School day!!! this is a glimpse at the school i work at through La Esperanza Granada- a nonprofit that works with low income schools near Granada. i walk about 30 minutes to the outskirts of the city to get to the school. usually i work with kids one-on-one who are having trouble in a subject. all of my kids are in 2nd grade and with most of them we're working on the alphabet. this actually has proven difficult for me, since in Spanish "E" sounds like "aye" and "I" sounds like "eee." sometimes i find my self saying very loudly "AYE" because i want them to write "A" when they have already clearly written "E", which is "AYE." 

on wednesdays i help the other volunteers with PE and art. PE usually involves soccer on the cement for the boys and jump rope for the girls. art today was mosaics of little paper pieces glued to paper. the kids kept saying what i thought was "bella! bella!" to me - which is sweet, because it means beautiful- but i quickly learned they were actually saying "pega! pega" which means glue. they wanted more glue. 

the kids come to school at 8 and leave at 12 and get one meal provided by the government of beans and rice. if there's a parade, if it rains, or if the teacher doesn't want to come, school is cancelled. needless to say, this educational laxity really disturbs the German volunteers. :)