Earth Day 2010

It's World Earth Day, and Holy Cross marked the day in many ways. First of all, the children and teachers were encouraged to wear green shirts. The school was a sea of shades of green. Very different from our usual grey and white uniforms.

Many classes made posters urging everyone to save the earth -- to pick up litter, to drive less, to conserve energy, to save the mangroves, etc.

Ms. Zulma's class has created a skit and will perform it next week at the Hol Chan Reserve competition. Classes from Standard 1 up went out to various locations and picked up trash. The middle and upper divisions worked along the beach north of the bridge while the younger children cleaned up the campus and surrounding areas.
This morning we had our regular weekly chapel services. We were very happy to have Pastor Pam from Ohio lead the service today. She has been volunteering at the school all week before going on a diving vacation.

Work goes on in the Standard VI math class. The PSE test is May 4 so time is short. Their teacher, Ms. Joy and I were on our own Monday and Tuesday as Mrs. Grace was in meetings in Belize City. We did a lot of review. Then Mrs. Grace returned to teach about proportion on Wednesday. That topic always stumped me when I was a math student -- I can reason it out in my head but can't put the problem into steps much less explain it to someone else! So what else would I do but fire off an email to my math buddy at Hill. Bonnie to the rescue! I'm still a little shaky in my explanations but am doing a little better.

It continues to be very hot although today we had some much welcomed clouds and a bit more of a breeze. We are consuming much more water, and the air conditioned school office has become a haven. One of the student teachers from Canada told me today that never in her life had she ever been in a temperature like this, and probably there had never been this temperature recorded in all of Canada. I feel sure she's correct! Summers in Mississippi were good preparation for me --- but I still love my air conditioning.