Tuesday 26 June 2012

The Hamiltons in Mexico

Sorry it's been a while since our last blog - things have been pretty busy!

We came home to the UK for 3 weeks over Easter and enjoyed seeing a lot of our family and friends. When we returned to Mexico we spent a couple of weeks in a beautiful area called Cuernavaca - it is an old part of Mexico and had some lovely buildings. We were there to attend a language school for 2 weeks, staying with a Mexican family who were great hosts.

At the moment we are in the middle of our 'summer teams'. These are teams that come in, mainly from the US, and work with us - doing what we do all year round. In the last 3 weeks we have served around 2500 people, offering them medical, optical and dental services as well as having a children's and hair/nails area! A lot of the people simply cannot afford to go to the doctor, dentist or optician although they often need treatment. They are very grateful when we offer it to them for free :)

Mexico has now entered the 'rainy season'. Usually, this means we have sunshine for most of the day and somewhere around 4-5pm it will start to rain. The rain is often accompanied by a thunderstorm which lasts about 2 hours. Last week, however, it was cloudy, drizzly and rather chilly during the day - most unusual and, I'm happy to say, the sun has returned this week!

Lucy's school, which follows the American system, finished for the summer on May 30th! Therefore, she is free to work with us during the summer - although some school work, using the internet, is done when we have free time! Their school year starts again on August 16th.



We have been following your school blog with interest at all the different activities going on at Oakwood Junior School. We were impressed with the 5 Olympic rings that you managed to make together on sports day!

Enjoy the rest of your summer term and then your summer holidays!

7 comments:

Mr Taylor said...

Hello the Hamiltons in Mexico!

It still looks as though you are having a fantastic time and doing very worthwhile work!

You will pleased to know that the rainy season has started here too...!

Keep in touch!

Mr T

Oakwood Governors said...

Thank you for these fantastic photos. It gives us a glimpse of what life is like for you - it certainly looks action-packed! Enjoy your summer "break", Lucy. It looks like you have an important part to play in the team.
Best wishes from the governors at OJS

N McPhillimy said...

Wow what amazing photographs, our weather is cloudy, rainy and a little sunny. We are wishing for a lot more sunshine too! We can see what a good job you do testing peoples eyes and checking peoples teeth.

Thank you again
Year 3!

Marta, Anastasia and Abbi said...

Hello. We are Oakwood's World links Committee.

Do children go to school in Mexico?How many children are in each class? We would like to know how you look after the environment there?

What have you done sine your last blog?

We would love to hear from you again? Please have a look at Oakwood's blog to see what we've been to.

Matias, Lewis and Paolo said...

Hello. We are the Oakwood World Links Committee.
How is your weather, our weather is horrible.
Do children there go to school?
What have you done since your last blog? What have would love to hear from you again.

Daniel and Natalia said...

How are you? We are Oakwood World Links Committee. We haven't heard from you for 6 months. Please let us know what you've been up to.

Jeremy and William said...

We are from the worlds links committee. We would like to hear how you are doing in Mexico.