Last Days at Colegio Santa Ursula

Friday was the last day for our delegates at Colegio Santa Ursula. In the morning, Mr. Poellot taught "the hour of code" to middle school students. They all worked on creating either a MineCraft, Star Wars or Frozen video game. At the end of the class, he gave each student a sticker proclaiming that he /she had completed an hour of code and had started to become a computer programmer.  He then met up with Ms. Rico and the students to participate in a Portuguese lesson given by Ze Ricardo and Marcio.  The lesson was centered on idioms (expressions such as “take the bull by the horns”) and how they may or may not be the same in the USA and Brazil.  The teachers felt old when the students didn’t know some of the idiom examples, but all were successful in saying the Portuguese translations.

  

 

 

Following the language lesson, the Dallasites were bid a fond farewell by the primary school.  They did a fantastic job sending off our group! The fifth grade students played a lovely song on their  recorders, other students lead a prayer and also sang songs. The entire group then sang “Malo Malo” after which students had the opportunity to ask questions.  Nearly every hand went up when Rafael asked the students who would like to go to the USA to visit Ursuline Academy of Dallas someday, and he reminded them to keep studying English. 

 

 

 

And now, after a fun-filled last weekend together, our Dallas delegates are on the way home. What a grand experience this exchange has been - what fantastic forever friendships have been made! It was very sad for our group to leave Brazil but we are all already look forward to a new Colegio Santa Ursula delegation visiting us in Dallas in September. We love you, Brazil!!! Thank you for a wonderful life-changing experience!