Sententia

On Thursday, June 25th, the Colegio Jorge Williams of Valparaiso Chile celebrated it's 14th anniversary. It's the school that we've all been working at down here, and it is sponsored in part by the Y, and also in part by the Chilean government. On a side note, I've been very impressed with the Chilean Government's co-operation with the YMCA (well ACJ in Spanish). They work together on several colegios (primary schools), residencias (foster homes), and family/social intervention and child psychology programs. Their work is effective, but could use at least double the programs it now has.

But back to the anniversary. It was a really cold morning, but the entire school sat in chairs on the patio/soccer area/recess area and watched several presentations of music, a skit, and some short speeches. I only uploaded small versions of the photos to save time, click them for bigger versions.


All of the kids on the patio.


Gabriel and Dilan, two kids in Primer basico, first grade. I assist in their Language and Phys Ed classes.


Many of the other kids in Primer basico. They look adorable, and they are, but I assure you they're often more than difficult enough for me and the young teacher who is often at the end of her rope.


The best recorder players from various music classes played a couple songs with their professor.


The music professor, second from left, played a lot of cultural and indigenous (Mapuche I believe) music with his band.


The kids got to march around with them.