Anabuti 2

With vast differences from Anabuti 1, this is Anabuti 2. This school is designed to give students coming from slum areas an education. This school pays for all the school fees, uniforms, supplies, as well as lunch and 2 snacks throughout the day. The students coming to this school must be entering 1st grade and at this level their main goal is to teach the students about hygiene, balanced foods, study habits, clean language, and basic survival skills. Seeing some pictures of the places they live is heart breaking. The school makes it mandatory for the parents to drop off and pick up their child from school and teaches parents about involvement. It's really an incredible program!

Going into the classes however, I have never seen such rude, disrespectful, craziness. That includes schools in the US! I so badly want to be sympathetic towards them because of where they come from, but is hard! The teachers in the school have not implemented any discipline and really have no authority. I was expecting this to be my favorite place, but really, at the begining I just couldn't wait to leave each day. By the end, I had fallen in love with the kids :)

They teachers will randomly leave the room and we are left to teach for sometimes up to an hour or two but it's just madness. We get there at 8am and leave at 4. This has absolutely proven to me that teaching is not for me! That is waaaaay too long of a day!