Welcome back to school. I hope that you are getting settled
into your new classrooms and that you have made some new friends. I am sure
that you are going to have a fun year with lots of hard work! I know that I
will!
I miss everything about Evergreen. I miss seeing the
teachers every day. I miss the students who come to school ready to learn. I
miss the classrooms filled with great learning experiences. Even though I miss
Evergreen very much, I am excited about this year.
Did you know that I took one year off from teaching to
volunteer in El Salvador? (That means I’ll be back at Evergreen next year!)
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| Here I am working in my office. |
I know that starting a new school year can be exciting and a
little scary. So is living in a new country! We both will have a lot to learn
this year. I am going to have to do new things this year, and I hope that you
try something new too! I will need to work really hard to improve my Spanish. I
am trying to read as much as I can in Spanish because the more you read, the
better you get at understanding a language. I also bought a workbook to help me
with Spanish grammar.
I am volunteering with the Salvadoran Lutheran Church. My
job is to connect American churches with Salvadoran churches. This means that
sometimes I spend all day translating different documents to spend to the
United States. Other days I go with American groups who visit El Salvador as a
tour guide. Sometimes I go to different parts of the country to learn about
different projects there. Last week I went to a place called Cara Sucia for a
youth workshop. Students at the workshop were learning about how to write news
articles. We worked in groups to write an article and take pictures to use
along with our article.
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| This is one of the groups I helped. We are top of the San Salvador Volcano in this picture! |
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| These are some of the students in the youth workshop. Our classroom was outside! |
El Salvador is a very exciting place! I can’t wait to share
with you about the wonderful country I’ll call home for the next year.
Best of luck this school year! Work really hard. I miss you.
Abrazos,
Mrs. Mulherin
Here is a map activity you can complete to learn more about where El Salvador is:
