Magical Classroom

And then there were two...

Only two more days until our big teacher training kicks off where Sandra and Nancy will be in attendance for the second consecutive year. This time around they'll be coming all the way the frigid mountain town of San Antonio La Capellania to join us in the tropical coast for an unforgettable week of learning and fun.

Seeing as how we're big believers of the importance of story time in Magic Classroom, how about you sit around the rug (legs criss-cross applesauce) and let us tell you a little bit more about these two special young ladies.

Sandra and Nancy were two of our very first recruits from high up in the mountains of Chiantla, where we literally plucked them from the hillside where they were herding their family's sheep for our first meeting. During that first meeting both girls were incredibly shy, muttering just a few words and mostly looking at the ground as we we probed to get to know them and tried to see as to whether or not our program belonged in their town. However, they both perked up once we started talking about the dozens of 5-6 year-old children in the community without much anything productive to do and simply waiting their turn to begin first grade. Ultimately they both were adamant in expressing the need for a program like ours in San Antonio and provided that they could work together, they decided to take on the challenge of wrangling the 30-odd preschoolers in the area.

While they still can be occasionally spotted on that same hillside with their sheep in tow just as we found them, this time around Nancy and Sandra are no longer those same timid and deferential girls that we met last year.

And as such this time around we're counting on them both to help us lead our upcoming training session and to continue to serve as ambassadors for our program and positive examples for other youth leaders in the entire region. This time around there is not a single doubt in our minds (nor Sandra and Nancys' for that matter) as to whether they'll rise to the occasion.

To help support Sandra and Nancy and others like her, please make a donation today.