Today was our first day at the North Hills school. Upon walking in this morning, the majority of us arrived a little early so we could visit with the students we hosted in the US. Once the school day started and all of the Argentinians went to their classes, we were given a tour of the school. We got to see all of the classrooms and get familiar with our new school for the next week. After finishing our tour we ate breakfast with our host students and the rest of their classmates. Within the breakfast we got to meet the other students and we played games to get to know each other better. Once the breakfast ended there was a break where we were given the freedom to do whatever we wanted. Some of us just talked to our friends outside and others played either basketball or soccer. The break ended and we all went to a class where we saw a home made water heater made out of plastic bottles and were given instructions on how to make wallets out of laminated paper from an old billboard. Some of us had more troubles than others with the wallets, but in the end we all had a successful final product. Lunch was after the wallets and we all got to sit down and eat together for about an hour until the Argentinians had classes again. When they started their after lunch classes we were able to basically do whatever we wanted on the campus. The majority of us played ping pong, however, others just sat and talked with each other. For the remainder of school we went to one of the hip hop classes that the Argentinians had where they taught us Argentinian dances. We had extra time so we were able to show them some of our dances as well. After the school day ended we had some free time to go home and be with our students before going to a party organized by the parents that went from 9-2. We all went home after that and went to sleep, concluding another great day on the trip.
–Joe
