Seño Lucia

Well Seno Lucia has hung up her teachers robe for the last time in San Pedro.
Slight sense of relief I have to admit!!!!! It was MUCH harder work then I had ever imagined short days long holidays and all that, it’s all a myth. They look cute in the pictures but don’t let that fool you; they are hard work and need constant attention and discipline.
But that aside, I have enjoyed every single second that I have been with them, they have filled my head with stories that I will remember forever.



We have covered Ecology, Habitats, Carnivores, Herbivores and Omnivores. Ecosystems, communities and food chains. We have made worlds, stickers, posters, animals on elastic and much much more. I have been with the oldest at 14yrs down to the youngest at 4yrs old and have adapted my lessons to suit.



In my final lesson with the youngest class ‘Primario’ I was with Paola who is a real Miss chatterbox she never stops. I drew the outline in marker pen for their habitat so that they could colour the animals and stick them in (after gluing each others heads together first).



As always the deal is, if you stick in an animal, you have to colour and stick another for it to eat in order to survive in that habitat. So she coloured her possum in Orange and when I asked her what it was she replied ‘it’s a possum of course’, ‘and what does a Possum eat’ I asked not being sure of the answer myself. She went silent for a few minutes (which was a relief all be it short silence) before replying, ‘I’m not sure but I will make it a cake’. So she drew a circle, coloured it in pink and stuck it in our Forest Habitat. I wasn’t gonna challenge her as I had no idea of the correct answer so we left the cake there and only she and I know that it’s actually a cake and not something living in that habitat.



I have to leave my fan club behind too which consists of 5 little girls that follow me everywhere during break time and before and after school. They have figured out finally that I only have 2 hands so now take it in turns to hold my hand whilst quibbling with each other as apposed to ripping my arms out of their sockets which is what they did for the first month!



This is us just after a game of ‘Que Hora es Seno Lobo’ which translates as ‘what’s the time Mr. Wolf’!
They enjoyed that game as well as platting my hair and checking it for lice and just generally petting me until the bell goes for class.

I will miss my red pen and black pen, giving out gold stars to the first ten to finish copying my notes and diagrams off the board. Ill miss confiscating little bits of paper with scribblings on and Ill miss the mornings as I stand at the steps welcoming them all while I slurp my coffee and the occational one that just stands there until I lean down for a kiss.



Ill miss the buzz of the lessons and the mad crazy race to get it all taught, create a piece of art and clear up in time for a quick photo of the kids and volunteers.



These are the boys cleaning the classroom as we have no cleaner or caretaker anymore.



And me doing my bit!!

This morning I was sat at the dock waiting for a boat and I saw 3 of my little students wispering ´look its teacher´I said hello and asked what the bag of water was with black things in they were clutching and they told me they were going fishing and that the bag was full of worms which are part of our environment!!!

Ill miss all of these things but I will leave a little part of my heart here for them always in San Pedro.