Today we arrived out in Cabo Corrientes. It was a three hour drive to the school we wanted to reach, but the drive was beautiful. The town is called Corrales, a small village tucked between the mountains and the ocean. There are 20-30 houses, but there are as many more houses up in the hills that send their children to the school. The main means of survival is fishing and the common access to the town is by boat rather than by road.
The visit to the school was great. It's a two room school, divided between two teachers. Luisa teaches grades 1-3 and Ramona teaches grades 4-6. We brought the kids together to show them the books, and asked the big kids to help the little ones pick out books. After they got their first books, we talked to the teacher about the importance of reading aloud to the students, including the older ones.
I sat on the floor and read aloud to a small group for a few minutes, and before I knew it, there were 10 or so around me, including several 4th and 5th graders. The fun of listening to a good book read aloud never ends. I read "Little Red Riding Hood" in Spanish and had the whole group saying the good lines with me!
One group of kids with their first books. The girl in the middle couldn't even stop long enough to smile for a photo!
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