Waiting for the World Famous Chicken Drop
to start

Thursday nights here at one of the local restaurants on the ocean front they hold something called the chicken drop. What they do, is take volunteers to blow in a chickens butt and then they spin the chicken around. After a few seconds, they drop the chicken in this gated square which has numbers listed on the bottom. Everyone makes bets as to which number the chicken will poop on. This was hilarious to all of us who have never seen it before but apparently it is a weekly event for the locals.

Birthday lady shaking the chicken

Looks like we have 2 winners: 6 and 96!

Bailey and I waiting for our meeting to start at the high school

Yummy Paella 

San Pedro High school 

Friday we woke up around 7 and all met up for breakfast. All of the food here in Belize is freshly prepared so when our group of 12 arrive at a restaurant, it may take a while to get our food. It is a really nice change to not be in a rush and just really enjoy the company of who you are with instead of worrying about cell phones and things.Our next stop was the schools to meet some of the students and teachers we will be working with in the upcoming weeks. We walked next to the sea all of the way to the high school in an effort to not be so hot. The high school was having opening day which is where all of the students hold different centers in the classrooms to show off what they have been learning. It was awesome to see all of the students so enthusiastic about learning. Many of the students told us that they love school and are super happy to be there. This was extremely refreshing considering many of the students in the states are not nearly excited about being in school. Some of the centers they had were math, language arts, Spanish culture, physics/science posters, and even a live zoo on top of the school. As many of you can probably guess, the math center was my favorite. :) The students came up with awesome activities to show off their knowledge of percentages, decimals, geometric shapes and numbers. They had games and even some laptop computers to display activities. Being at the school was probably the highlight of my trip thus far; i am so excited to start working with the students! After a long day, we stopped at Latitudes on the beach to get a smoothie before walking back to the pier to go swimming. Later that night, we attended Paella night at Pedro's Inn (the place we are staying). The Paella had mussels, shrimp, calamari, sausage, and chicken on top of rice and was amazing! It's awesome that our Inn has so many activities going on so that we don't even have to leave to have fun!

Views on the walk to school, I could get
used to this :) 

Clock Tower inspired by
Cape Fear Community College

View from the top of the school

Time for a mathemagical moment at San Pedro High

Some of the students at San Pedro High showing off their work!