School Begins!

School began in Mexico on Monday, August 24th! As in Canada, the stores are full of Back to School indicators! This sign in Spanish says ¨Happy Return to Classes!¨ The students must purchase all consumable materials for themselves and for the classroom! There are stores that sell necessary texts and books. Students must purchase these as well. Nothing is provided by the schools.

All students in Mexico wear uniforms! All stores sell them cheaply. Each private school, has a different colour of skirt or pant. All shirts and blouses are white. All public schools girls wear pink skirts and the boys navy blue shorts or pants. In Walmart or the Mega (a big Mexican chain), the white tops sell for $2.50 and the bottoms for around $4.00. I always thought this topic of uniforms was a great one to debate for staff and students. I love to see the school children in their simple 100%, Mexican made uniforms!

I love going into this store to buy fruit and vegetables. This display of pinatas was right beside the ¨Happy Return to Classes¨and uniform pics. How bright and colourful. In Mexico, when a student has a birthday, the family provides lunch and a pinata for the child´s class.

Here is my palapa shot for this post! I took this picture UNDER A PALAPA on the beach. I was laying on my chair and just looked up and shot the photo!