Fun fact (but not so fun)

School is 'required' for kids here in Nicaragua from K-6... only 30% of kids actually make it through... and it takes those 30% approximately 8-10 years to actually complete seven years.

We certainly don't realize how lucky we are to have the education system that we do- we take it for granted. Today was orientation day for me, which consisted of being taken to six of the eight schools so that we could see all of the different areas that the volunteers here at La Esperanza work in. Though we traveled to six different schools, two of them were not in session... they had been cancelled for no reason. It will be extremely rare to have a full week of work, from what I hear; schools are closed because of rain, because only 2 teachers were there instead of 3, etc.

The school that I'll be working at is called Elba Zamora, the smallest out of all eight schools, with only three classrooms (one for pre-school, one for 1st and 2nd grade, and one for 3rd and 4th). When we visited today however, there wasn't anyone there because of some 'teacher workshop', so I will have more to tell tomorrow once I actually get a feel for where I am, who I am working with, what I'm doing, and what the kids are like.