First Day of School

 From the top of the main city park in Santiago

Feb 5, 2013

Today we started our home school.  We decided it best to work outside, barefoot.  Our official school is on our breakfast table on our patio and overlooks the lake.  We brought out our supplies and set up.  We didn’t wake up early, we didn’t rush, we just started after breakfast when we were ready.  Elijah was enthusiastic.  We’ve only been in Chile 5 days, but it seems like a month already.  Things are so different here.

Our first days were in Santiago.  We spent them seeing the city center, and then exploring the city’s biggest park.  Then we had another travel day coming to Pucon.  Our flight left Santiago at 9 am. Which doesn’t seem bad right?  But Chile is 5 hours ahead of California so to get there on time we had to wake up at 1:30 am our time!  The last few days have been a bit of a jet-lagged whirlwind getting settled in our new home. 

Our new house is amazing… but I digress… school.  I taught reading, Spanish, and Science.  Achilles then did a PE and math lesson.  Later in the afternoon we will do writing and music. 

I think we are off to a great start!

First day of school