Easter Camp- San Pedro Town Library

Easter Egg hunt

During the duration of our stay in San Pedro, we have to complete 20 hours of community service.  Since the schools are out for Easter/Spring break this week and next, we dedicated this week to community service. Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday we went in shifts to work with the kids.  The hours of the camp were 10-12 and then 2-4. I was always on "second" shift, which I didn't mind at all.  They all made cute crafts, we read stories, and we played games outside.

Arts and Crafts!

I think the children had a lot of fun doing all of the activities and games with us.  We are teaching at Isla Bontia and some of the students came to the Easter Camp.

Currently I have about thirteen and half hours completed! Yay! I think some of us are going to go to the Humane Society and walk the pups tomorrow. We also have a opportunity to make some activities/lesson plans for some books.  However, they have to be simple enough for non-teachers to teach the book to the children.

I feel that this culture is a more of a "as you go" flow.  They don't seem to have a particular need of being "on time" for anything.  I feel like in America, you have to have that schedule and you must stick to it. Even with lesson plans, if you write them down for that day then you better use them.  We had an activity planned out for one of the days, but since the librarian could not find the brass fasteners for us we had to think of something else to do.  I do know that in America is very different, but I think we could learn from the Belizean culture.  It is not a "big deal" if something goes wrong or you can't do something that day.  The rules down here are so different and I am happy to have the opportunity to view it.  When I have my own classroom, I want to be able to have a sense of "freedom" from all of the rules.  Everyone is different and I feel like we are trying to have everyone on the same exact page and its hard to do that.

Belizean Coconut

conch ceviche

Today, we had the chance to take a trip to the very north end of the island (Rocky Point).  It is where the barrier reef meets the land! It was an unbelizeable adventure!  However, it took us 2 hours on golf carts to get there!! It was super bumpy too.  Half way through our trip one of the carts broke down! The tour guides tried to fix it but they called for another one.  One of them stayed behind and waited while the rest of us continued our journey.  Along the way, we also stopped to cut coconuts down to drink the water.  It was definitely interesting, but good. We continued our journey and finally stopped at a spot to go snorkeling.  While we were doing that we had a mission.  To find conchs to make ceviche for us later! We were even able to keep the shells after the conch was cut out.  It was a lot of fun.  After that, we went to a campsite area to have lunch! We had conch ceviche for an appetizer and then we had grouper with onions, green peppers, tomatoes, and sliced up potatoes.  It was so, so good!  After lunch we went further up north to snorkel again (if you wanted) or to fish! I decided to go snorkeling again since there were too many people wanting to go fishing.  It was a lot of fun. I went with Colin, Mike and one of the tour guides! We even got a picture of us in the water close to the barrier reef, thanks to Mike's waterproof camera!