Overcoming Challenges: Jocelyn Herrera

July 4, 2018 Dear Ms. Rebecca, Hope you are doing well.  I am writing this letter to share with you some fun things I did for this school year.  My school year has been fun and I learnt so many things and did so many wonderful activities.  My greatest challenge was in math when we learned about angles.  I stayed back for many extra hours practicing angles so I could become good at identifying and calculating them. Another challenge came in my sewing class […]

Read more ...

Ready for Grade 12: Anique Hernandez

July 4, 2018 Dear Ms. Rebecca, I received your letter that made me aware that you are Ms. Bev’s replacement so let me start off by saying “Hello!!”.   Although I will surely miss Ms. Bev, I am sure that it will be a delight working with you.  Hoping that you are doing okay.  I know we met on your visit back in January but I still want to formally introduce myself.  My name is Anique Ashanti Hernandez and I am 15 years old.  I am […]

Read more ...

Life Lessons, Pythagorean Theorem, and Song for Rebecca

Each day, we are busy doing a variety of teaching activities with the children, supporting the excellent teachers. Today included: checking students’ answers to a Pythagorean theorem word problem, playing “Simon Says”,  watching our team (St Hilda’s) boys and girls from standard five (grade seven) play in a volleyball tournament, playing active games with a parachute, playing Frogger (an elimination game where the leader tries to guess who is the frog), letter writing to Fredericton children, encouraging the teachers, taking […]

Read more ...

Commissioning Service

On January 21st, Kurt Schmidt led a lovely commissioning service for us, the away team, of the Belize Mission.  As part of the service, the prayer partners, and other members of the congregation laid hands on and prayed over us. Having the congregation and prayer partners pray for us was a very moving experience. As one away team member said, “The commissioning service brought the whole congregation together as one body sending out the away team. It felt good to […]

Read more ...

Working with the Kids

As Belize mission team members, we are excited about our upcoming adventure next week. We look forward to working with the children on their skills such as reading and math. We also look forward to collaborating with the teachers to learn how they approach different subjects and to see what types of activities they use in class. One clear difference between teaching in Canada and teaching in Belize is the role of religion in the schools. At St. Hilda’s Anglican […]

Read more ...