Roatan Campbells' Connection

Yes.  This is Part 2. It's a big topic to us.😏 In Part 1, I shared what I understand about schools and the school system here in Sandy Bay, Roatan.  The school stuff is like a puzzle - a puzzle with many pieces and it often seems like some of the pieces of the puzzle are missing.  Sometimes you wonder if the puzzle box didn't even include the missing pieces and, sometimes you think someone has the missing pieces tucked away in his/her pocket.  Here, I want to share with you the fun things.  This is student things and how we spend most of our time.  We enjoy these things and think we are making things easier so kids can succeed in school. School shopping with Arezzi and kids. Just to set the scene - we help the kids that we know - we don't go out looking for kids. There are many needs so we set boundaries. This year we have 19 kids we assist on a continuous basis and there were others we helped only with school start-up. People have genero...

Wilson and friends coming from Modelo Geyzi ready for school. Larry and I feel strongly about encouraging kids here to go to school, stay in school, and succeed in school.   We are not alone in this. The parents want this too as they have high goals for their kids. Carlos, Karla, Leidy, Jessie, and Oscar Day 1 ALFA Daily we have new understandings of how school works here in our place in Sandy Bay, Roatan.  What we understand is lots of times not accurate or at least incomplete.  It seems it changes depending on who is doing the telling. Not only language hampers our understanding, but also people trying to please, or people trying to interpret changes, or people making changes. Then, occasionally it’s people who take advantage of our misunderstandings …sigh….. There are cultural differences.  There are socio-economic differences. We come to this with our own understanding of what we have experienced previously, or our understanding of wha...