Last ever Antigua Blog Okay this is the last entry from Antigua and although it's being done in Florida it seemed apt to do this once I had left Antigua. I woke up pretty early and finished all the packing and spent time reflecting on my last week which was emotional and pretty full on. My last week at the school was amazing yet incredibly sad and I will never forget these amazing children. On the last day I made my leaving cards with them and I spent most of th...

Week number 5 extension week 1 Tuesday This is the week I should have been back in the USA but I decided to stay and here I am an extra two weeks in Antigua and up at the school which is awesome so I get more time to spend with the kids and I get to stay with Christina in here house which is cool too so not much upheaval to do so. Had a lot of new interns this week and they seem lovely girls and they've all started up at the school and I get help from Weisa who...

Semama Santa week part 2 So in previous blog I mentioned that we were off for a whole week so it's all been about exploring different areas of Antigua. Obviously I did the childrens Semana Santa parade on Monday which was just great, all the mums and grandparents were parading with us. Tuesday, me, Joelle, Sarah and Sally wnet up to Earth Lodge an eco retreat just outside of Antigua and also built round an Avacado farm. So, we had a great little cabin which 3 of...

Semana Santa week This whole entry is for Semana Santa week. The school was closed as it's an official holiday for the whole country and it's basically the celebrating of Easter. Semana Santa occurs everywhere in Central America but it's more famous in Antigua. So the whole week has mainly dealt with parades all around the city with Alfombras, Music, Incense the whole lot. We even had our own little procession up at the school and around Itzapa. The Alfombras re...

End of first week going solo So survived my first week og going solo and any fears I had disappeared after the first day. It wasn't a problem with the teaching it was just the Spanish but got through it all by the skin of my teet. Luckily the kids understood what I wanted them to do and it all went smoothly!! On Thursday we had a special part of the day when grandparents of the kids came for the food parcels, basically in a family situation over here, grandparen...