Edivaldo is probably the first to stand up to the normal Monday in Brazil to the operation of the ecological school on the great road BA-093 - followed directly on the grounds of the Fundacao Terra Mirim - their happy life after Last weekend to breathe again. Edivaldo is the school bus driver.
to its cozy mood, he does and pleasurable sipping down his obrigatorischen Cafezinho to sell every last bit of sleep. Quickly on to the baking mix and pack ice pack under his arm and goes out into the dawn of Bahia. At one author unknown location Edivaldo joins after a short time on his great friend - the school bus. What kind of music it must be today? What is the (children's) hits in Brazil? Edi knows. And so he turns cheerful humming to himself the music system of the bus, it sinks to its loud creaking driver's seat and the vehicle is in motion. Now he makes one trip through the surrounding communities of the Vale do Rio Itamboatá - Simoes Filho, Oitero, Pitanga, Danda & Palmares - and collects his beloved.
His loved ones, those are the school children. Meanwhile, they need the short blue pants and T-beijefarbenen shirts saying "Escola Ecologica" bear no longer to be recognized by the side of the road racing by Edi and collected. Because he knows his "sheep" good. Still applies in this school, the national uniform requirement, thus ensuring the same colors at the kids on the bus. With the rising of the sun and becoming full of school bus also increases the volume and mood of the occupants. The children sing and they look forward to a beautiful morning in the safe environment of peaceful nature and people of Terra Mirim.
peace - that is, after many of they deeply crave. The list is long. Alcohol and drug addicts parents. Families where the father beats up the mother before the eyes of the child and the children themselves also fall victim to the violence. A home by sleeping on the floor without a dinner, along with his many siblings. In Germany, probably would cause every single case in the form of an image corresponding headline indignation and horror in our affluent society. Not so here, in northeastern Brazil.
are at 9 clock in the morning arrived all the children, one is greeted by loving the different teachers and volunteer youth workers, which in some cases even earlier this school have visited. After a short romp in the open-it goes directly into the classroom. There are generally two classes, one for the older (12-16) and one for younger (7-11) crianças ". Instruction is in accordance with the educational concept of "Integrative Ecology" to be directed, which makes the issues related to our natural environment to the forefront of design. A good example: It is a poem read aloud over the colors of the butterflies and depreciated according to a butterfly handicrafts, and when the time still enough taken a walk to the lake, where there is to admire all kinds of butterflies. But also allowed music lessons from Carla, the guitar teacher from Terra Mirim, computer science hours in brand new and topausgeruesteten computer rooms, volleyball and teaching by the author they receive.
The lessons in the classroom for German ears are conspicuous, according to what the one on the Hellhoerigkeit and size of the room - is, on the other, the tempramentvollen nature of children. As the teacher, which in most cases even to serve a second class (of about 10-25 students), like the teaching about hinwegbruellen that certain noise levels, the author thought spontaneously in his first encounter with this backdrop of Urupax. Nevertheless, he found that teachers with their seemingly inexhaustible patience, skillfully done, bring the children in this way to teach something. Discipline is imparted from the very beginning, then after each lesson swept the room together abputzt and the tables, and once a week Generalsaeuberung made the school to tackle at all.
After class games is the word: in the large garden play area with its swings, slides and Kletterbaeumen, in the covered football field or in a small house with a doll's house. Everything a child's heart! While the kids play, makes itself a part of the teacher / youth began to prepare for the free lunch. Healthy food is cooked, served with fresh squeezed juices with lots of vitamins. For some children it is the only meal a day. And accordingly, they eat - is rarely anything left on the plates, which they then wash yourself. Today is one of many Lucky the children in the ecological school: Edi has mentioned how in the morning do not forget the cake mix for the cake and the ice. After his short Vormittagsnickerchen on the trampoline at school with a pack of nuts in the arm, he devoted himself to his actual favorite thing - the baking. Now it may a special orange-coconut-chocolate cake for dessert composition for his little ones, they eat thanks to big eyes.
leaves at noon Edivaldo then most of the school bus to their respective public school in the area, since the ecological school is only an educational "extra tender" of Terra Mirim. The normal state school must pass by each child. Because of the sometimes catastrophic conditions in the public schools (overcrowded classrooms, students without school bags and related materials, teachers with no training and motivation, etc.) may ask the reader, however, because what is now supposed to call the additional service.
Since school in Bahia in three periods of the day - morning, afternoon, evening - is divided, the school bus picked up at the discontinuation of the morning the children the same afternoon from the ecological school children who have attended public school in the morning. And so the cycle is then repeated one more time, however, replaced the dessert of the cake with the ice.
So it creates this school on a day when many children Joy to breathe to allow peaceful vitality, thereby getting more teaching. And if Edi sells 17 against the clock last singing school children at home, he is happy that he has made an important contribution.
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