Visitation Day

Today we had the luxury of time to walk around the community and visit some of the friends we have met in previous years.  We began by attempting to see the Munoces teachers early in the morning before they boarded the truck for the commute to Munoces.  We found that the truck leaves 15 minutes before it did last year so we just missed them but one of the El Tablon teachers called them and they came back!  We felt badly that they returned just to talk to us but it gave us a chance to arrange a meeting after school this afternoon.  We went back to the Casa Pastoral for breakfast and later wandered around the market and visited with people we have come to know in Berlin.  We also promoted our afternoon English class that begins on Monday. 

After lunch we picked up Kimberly and met the teachers on the square for a meeting to plan our teaching in the coming weeks.

 Yanira and Mario have 60 students this year in grades kindergarten through 6th grade...14 in kindergarten!  So they have had to reorganize their day to accommodate all those students.  We worked out a plan that will give us lots of time with the students...maybe too much in the case of all those kindergartners!...and will give them a better chance to work with the other classes, as well. They seemed very happy to have us come and asked if we could begin tomorrow instead of Monday so we will be waiting for the truck at 6:30 AM on the square. Now it begins......