six weeks primary school Nosara

I worked as a volunteer in a private school. It was a small elementary school where every teacher has his own class with about seven pupils of two different grades for example four pupils of grade 4 and three of grade 5. There was also a kinder garden and a pre-school. In the beginning I helped the teacher in the pre-school by repeating easy English vocabulary with the children like the colors and assist the kids for example with tying their shoelaces and so on. Later I was in the class of grade 4 and 5 where I looked after the children while they were working on their own with their workbooks and tried to answer their questions about their exercises. I also practiced a poem with them. One day they did a spelling competition where I was one of the judges. It always depends on the teacher what work you will do, but you should not expect a good organization in advance. It is more an organization day by day.

While I worked in the school, I lived in a host family. The host family was living next to the beach. I needed to take the bus to get to the school. The bus was really cheap, but I needed to get up early, because the bus drove there at 6 in the morning. Some other teachers also arrived that early in the school, so that we sat there together before the children arrived and ate our breakfast. In the afternoon I took some Spanish classes offered by my host mum, I would recommend you to do it, too. It was perfect to improve my Spanish skills and it is better to have some knowledge of Spanish, because not every teacher there spoke English. The children there have taken me to heart, so it was hard to leave the project in the end.

Thanks to firsthand, with their organization and information it was much easier to travel the first time alone in a foreign country.