Journal 3

The kids are opening up to me. I can't wait for next week, we're going to do an activity that consists of helping the kids make paper plate piggies. The staff is absolutely amazing and nice. I feel at home here. Gustavo and Isabel are two kids in my group and the love dancing and singing. Today a little boy by the name Cade came up to one of the teachers and told her that he was ugly, because that's what another little boy had told him. Cade took it as though he was ugly because he was different. This enraged me and made me sad all at once. The teacher handled it by telling him that he was no different than anyone else, in fact he was an amazing and brilliant little boy. The boy smiled and walked away. Cade physically looks like every other little boy, but he has a speech impediment and does not like to play with others. He is becoming one of my favorites. He sits with me at lunch time and I he always comes and sits down in my lap for reading circle, where the teachers or sometimes myself read to the children gathered in a circle.