Day 3

Hello everyone. Today was another great day, it was my first full day at the school.  I started in the first grade room. The room was full of amazing young people. One particularly rambunctiousness little guy named Wilber. He had Down Syndrome and was so adorable. We worked together all morning on writing the letters in the alphabet. This was no easy task I must say. We worked so hard all morning on simply writing the letter A. He tried and tried and finally he figured out how to do it. I was so proud when he wrote the A correctly. It was a small moment but it had a huge effect. I realized that these children have huge potential and if they just received a little more one on one attention they could thrive. That isn't possible here because there just isn't a high enough teacher to student ratio.  After the success with Wilber I went and worked with a little blind boy named Jesus. He inspired me because he was so brave and smart. We played with a miniature Harp for a while.  He was playing with it and when ever he played a note he would clap and laugh. I loved seeing that sense of accomplishment in his face. After lunch I communicated with a group of deaf kids.  They were all so happy and playful.  I signed them my name and they wrote their's down on paper. I didn't have the opportunity to work with them much today but just being in the presence was amazing. My final story for today is about a little boy with Autism named Levi. We were sitting  on a bench outside. I was trying to get him to talk to me a little bit. I was trying to speak in Spanish, asking him what his name was and how old he was. Then I remembered this was the boy who lived in the US for a while and understood English.  Then I said, "Wait a minute, you understand English." He started laughing at me and it was the first thing he did. I then realized how smart he really was. He had a sense of humor and understood two languages.  I have to go now but thanks everyone again. Later!