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For the next two weeks members of the Green Team from Sherwood High School in Maryland will be posting entries on their experiences visiting their sister-school in Yelapa, Mexico! Enjoy! -Jess :)
Today is day eight in Yelapa, Mexico. We have been helping a lot at La Secundaria lately, but today I feel we made a big contribution in helping them paint the school. I have noticed that all the activities that we have done would have gotten done regardless if we were here. But, the fact that we are here may motivate some of the kids to work hard. I think it is important that we are showing them that others care even if we are not doing work independent of the locals. The kids attitude towards the community service activities are much more enthusiastic than Americans would behave. Something that struck alot of us as interesting, particularly Ms. Dinnerman, was that when we were painting some of us played with the paint and got it on each other ...and the Yelapans joined in. I think they are really interested in American ways. When the Yelapan teachers found out, the kids got in trouble for wasting the paint and had to wash it off. I think that some of the locals were hesitant about letting us come to Yelalpa, because they felt we might pull some of the teens away from the small town and toward cities/America. But, the cultural exchange is immense and has broadened their and our horizons.
-Michael Packer
Today is day eight in Yelapa, Mexico. We have been helping a lot at La Secundaria lately, but today I feel we made a big contribution in helping them paint the school. I have noticed that all the activities that we have done would have gotten done regardless if we were here. But, the fact that we are here may motivate some of the kids to work hard. I think it is important that we are showing them that others care even if we are not doing work independent of the locals. The kids attitude towards the community service activities are much more enthusiastic than Americans would behave. Something that struck alot of us as interesting, particularly Ms. Dinnerman, was that when we were painting some of us played with the paint and got it on each other ...and the Yelapans joined in. I think they are really interested in American ways. When the Yelapan teachers found out, the kids got in trouble for wasting the paint and had to wash it off. I think that some of the locals were hesitant about letting us come to Yelalpa, because they felt we might pull some of the teens away from the small town and toward cities/America. But, the cultural exchange is immense and has broadened their and our horizons.
-Michael Packer
