For the best year and a half, I've been working at CEG Antanifotsy, or Antanifotsy middle school. I have four classes of about 40 students each, and for three hours I teach each section all the English I can. We act out vocabulary, sing songs, and practice making sentences.

Below are some pictures of my school and my students.

Antanifotsy is very lucky to have a public middle school, a public high school, and multiple religious private high schools.

Some of my sixth grade students!

I call them up to the board to write sometimes.

They can play basketball in the schoolyard

Me writing a lesson on the board

Students in front of the CEG entrance

Anondrilahy and Angavo, the two outlying townships we hope to connect, only have elementary schools. Most students walk about 8 k from their families to get to school in Antanifotsy if they want to keep studying. Otherwise, they drop out before they've even hit middle school. Yikes.

A HUGE goal of this bridge is to help kids get to.... and keep going.... to school! Making it to high school is a huge accomplishment when you live so far.