Final Blog Post!

As this is my final blog post, I would just like to start out by saying how much I appreciated my time with the kids at Escuela and am really going to miss some of them. I feel that I did make a difference in some of the kids' lives and that they will remember the times I spent with them. For example my favorite person I worked with was Jonathan. Every week he always put a smile on my face and was really the only one who remembered my name. When we said goodbye, he gave me a huge hug and said he was really going to miss me. Also, I feel like I did make a connection with Ms. Valdivia in the end, even though she didn’t speak a lot of English. I could tell she was really trying towards the end to include me in what she was doing and I truly appreciated that and I knew the kids did as well. I think the most challenging thing I faced over the course of my time there was the language barrier. At the beginning, I didn’t talk at all to Ms. Valdivia but at the end I managed to talk to her and get to know her. Also, the kids would switch more into Spanish at the beginning, but towards the end they talked in mostly English around me and interpreted for me Spanish if I didn’t know what was going on. Overall, I feel like I gained a better understanding of the school as well as the Latino community.