Even though we have been out of school for a couple of weeks, the children in Antigua are still in. Their school year doesn't end till the middle of July. Whenever we first got to the academy this morning they had already started class for the day. Everyone on the team was wondering if we would get a chance to met some of the children. We hoped to connect and play some games with them before our day was over. Little did we know that we would definitely get to see them a lot.

During their lunch break and also during some free time, one by one the children started to walk up to where we were working. At first some on them didn't know what to think about us, but as we started to talk they grew more and more comfortable with us. They were asking us questions and laughing at some of us doing funny things.
Whenever they saw a camera they would run up to you and pose like crazy. All of them wanted to have their pictures taken, but they also wanted to see the pictures afterwards. Even though I almost got pushed into a pan of paint and into a tree, the excitement that was in their smiles will never be forgotten.

It was so neat to sit and listen to them tell us about their school day and what they liked and disliked about it. At the academy they have two buildings. The smaller of the two is for the little kindergartners and the larger one is for all the other children. I think that it is amazing that they have all the different age groups in one big building and that the teacher can keep up with it all.
The children definitely helped make the day much more fun and made it go by faster. When we got ready to leave the children didn't want to walk away from the cars. We had to ask some of them 4 or 5 times to move so we could go. They asked us numerous times if we were coming back tomorrow and when we said that we were they had the biggest grins on their faces. As we were pulling out of the school many of them stood there smiling and waving good-bye, some of them even ran after the van (inside the fences of course) I can't wait to see them tomorrow and I hope to continue to connect with them .

Written By: Kaylee