Before and After



Before: front of school



before: office and bathroom



before: back of building



after: front of building



after: office and bathrooms



after: back of building



school seal



mural on the outside of the security wall



inside the kindergarten classroom



inside the 1st grade classroom



inside the 2nd grade classroom



preschool hallway



preschool hallway



kindergarten alphabet

The team also built the other side of the security wall and poured the columns.  They painted alphabets in the 1st and 2nd grade classrooms.  They painted the upstairs classrooms white, and they cleaned and painted the walls in the walkway at the church.  They also drew a mural on the inside of the security wall to be painted at a later date. 

School Pictures

I was looking back at my old posts and I realized that I haven't posted pictures of the school for a while.  So here you go!

This is the new school building.  All of our students, except the preschoolers, have class in this building (kindergarten through 6th grade).  There are three classrooms downstairs and three classrooms upstairs.  They have been in use for over a year.  They are very unfinished without doors, windows, or electricity.

Doors and windows will be going in over Christmas Break! 

On the left are the bathrooms and on the right you can see the door to the office.  This is the newest part of the school. 

This is the "cafeteria" the children can buy their snack here and we made a make-shift roof to have a covered area for the children to protect from the sun or the rain.

Here are some of the first graders at recess...

...and in class.

Last month, a medical team from Hands of Grace came down and checked our students.

A few picture of the kids

Kinder (4 yrs)

Maternal (3 yrs)

Parvulo (2 yrs)

a few more wedding pics

Wedding Pictures

the ceremony

my favorite candid so far

eddy singing

all my brothers and sisters

just a little of the beauty that surrounded us

Pictures

Waiting our turn.

Me and Katie (our photographer for the day)

Eddy with his padrino

me with my madrina

after signing the book and saying 'i do' (well actually 'si') she is now pronouncing us husband and wife

you may kiss the bride

leaving the courthouse legally  husband and wife

Pictures

This is where our school building was when the group left.  The only changes since then have been adding to the staircase and putting up some wood upstairs to make it safer for the students.

We took this picture right after we picked Katie up from the airport.

Me with Alejandro.  I love him.

Part of the Canadian group working on one of the first walls that went up.

Eddy with his parents and also one of my favorite pictures.