This experience has been absolutely amazing. Today was the third day the awesome teachers and students have welcomed me to Kendal Primary. Working with first and second grade, I definitely feel like I’m in my comfort zone. The other Great Shape! volunteers working in the same class with me have been incredible and have taught me so much already. The students are the most grateful little ones I’ve ever worked with in my life. Everything is so much different in Jamaica than in the States… Today, the day started off with the second graders writing postcards to me as if I had already left them. They were so excited to brainstorm sentences they could write about me and to draw their colorful pictures on the front. Both the first and second graders I’ve had the pleasure of working with have literally changed my life. Every single day walking into the classroom, the students make me feel like I’ve been there working with them forever. They want nothing more than to please and will literally do anything in their power to do so. The joy on their faces from the littlest things make me rethink a lot of my personal priorities and the way I teach in the classroom. Something as little as a sticker literally means the world to them and they hold onto it forever. It’s hard to imagine how they would react in an American classroom, being given everything our students have the opportunity to experience. They have such respect for what they have and the people they surround themselves with.. Something not as common in the States. If the students and amazing teachers at Kendal Primary have taught me nothing else this week, they’ve taught me that the less you have materially and the more you have relationally, the happier you’ll be.