My Experience Coming to an End :(

So some of you may be wondering why I have not posted in so long and I guess it is honestly just because things have really calmed down lately and we have all just been busy in the schools and just hanging out. Last week and this week we have been in the high school all day teaching and normally come home around 3:30 and hang out around the pool. Being in the schools has been so awesome! I have really started to get to know my students and will truly miss them after leaving here. San Pedro really has started to feel like home for many of us. Whenever we go out, we ALWAYS run into multiple people we know. The people here are so genuinely nice and it will be extremely hard to leave them behind. Today we took a half day off from school in order to go around the island and explore some of the other schools. Unfortunately there is only one high school on the island so we spent the afternoon going around exploring primary schools. It was really interesting to see some of the other schools and to see how they ran. Some schools literally only have 10 students and consist of one classrooms. One of the schools we visited was founded by Americans and Canadians who have been visiting the island which is positioned in one of the poorer sections of the island. It is literally built on a landfill and really struggles to get by on only donations. It was amazing to see how far the school has come and hear its history. It just recently got a new computer lab which the students love! They also developed a library which they call the suitcase library because almost every book in there was brought to Belize in someone's suitcase. This was really awesome to hear, because we all brought books in our suitcases as well for the students.

"Cafeteria food" aka food from the High School Canteen
yummy- stewed chicken and conch fritters

Standing on the deck of the primary school built on a landfill

Suitcase Library 

We added a postcard from Wilmington, NC to the board at the primary school!

The place to go if you want an amazing milkshake!

Tomorrow and Friday will be the our last days on the island and they should be pretty interesting. I will be substituting at the primary school in the morning and teaching a lesson to an 8th grade class (much younger than what I am used to!) With little lessons to go on and our interns completely in control of this primary school, it should be interesting! The teachers at the primary school are going inland for some professional development so we have volunteered to substitute during our planning periods so they do not have to close the school.