A School Visit

Colegio Frey Pedro de Gante has a primary school, a secondary school, and a preparatory school. They are really scrunched together. The secondary school was a small platform that had three floors and all the classrooms were close to each other. The primary school was basically a building about the size of one of the McDougle classrooms.

Everything in the L.A. classrooms was in Spanish so I couldn’t join in the class (I only know a little Spanish). All the playgrounds were kind of rugged and plain. The day we came to see the school it was “hoy no vere TV” which means that nobody in the school is supposed to watch TV. The whole school was Catholic so there were lots of portraits of Jesus and Mary everywhere. I got to meet the principal and she said there were at least 3 or 4 kids in her office everyday and she said that it was often the same people. I guess her kids are kid of rowdy.

During recess the kids were allowed to take out their phones and text and talk, which I think is really awesome. Some of the kids in the courtyard formed a position and started marching. I guessed they must have been practicing for some sort of marching band. I noticed that a lot of the bathrooms were small and kind of trashy. The lady that was giving us a tour said that they clean them every week but the kids mess them up.

Between the uniforms, the small classrooms, and the Marys and Jesuses everywhere, Colegio Frey Pedro de Gante de San Miguel de Allende was completely different from our school.