Jaime Torrres Bodet Middle School - Grade 3
This middle school is one of two middle schools in the region surrounding “El Rosario” Sanctuary. Its population is of nearly 200 students.

At every public school in our region education is totally for free for parents and students. Parents only buy special school supplies for their children such as notebooks, pens, pencils and uniforms. Text books are all provided free by the state.

Middle school students take English classes as part of their education at this level.  The  moment they receive their Ambassador Monarchs, it is amazing how happy they feel trying to read every single word written in English in their symbolic Monarchs and letters!  Those words they do not know, they ask Estela Romero!  Many times they do not distinguish at all when a word is the name of a city or site and try to figure out for translation!.  Hearing them reading English loud is such an experience!  Most of them express they would love to learn and speak much more English every day.  They only have 1 hour English class, four days a week.

A mother-aunt to a couple of students in the school were in charge of selling delicious Mexican food for a snack at break time; Juan and Carlos were there with their mother while breaktime, a little shy to show me and tell me about what their mother-aunt was selling: Pozole, chicharrones, vegetable tostadas and meat tostadas, fruit water, etc.  A cup of pozole will always be the most expensive thing to get: 5 pesos each order!

The small cemetery of the community abundant decoration due to the just past “Day of the Dead,” and could be seen from the school.

Estela Romero
Angangueo, Michoacán, México.

Butterflies Received
This school received Ambassador Butterflies from the following U.S. and Canadian Schools:

Stormonth Elementary, Fox Point, WI
Stormonth Elementary, Fox Point, WI
Lincoln Prairie School, Hoffman Estates, IL
Stormonth Elementary, Fox Point, WI
Sawyer Road Elementary, Marietta, GA
Sawyer Road Elementary, Marietta, GA
Truth or Consequence Elementary, Truth or Consequence, NM
Stormonth Elementary, Fox Point, WI
Pineview Elementary, Reedsburg, WI
Fairview Elementary, Spencer, IA
Sawyer Road Elementary, Marietta, GA
Plymouth School, Welland, ON
Plymouth School, Welland, ON
Saint Richard School, Scarborough, ON
Randall Public School, Markham, ON
Cataraqui Woods Elementary, Kingston, ON
Adrienne Clarkson Elementary, Ottawa, ON
Little Current Public School, Little Current, ON
Mount Pleasant Elementary, Hudson, ON
Plymouth School, Welland, ON
Our Lady of Lourdes School, Brampton, ON
Saint Richard School, Scarborough, ON
Wymbin-Yoga for Kids, Calgary, AB
Neosho Rapids Elementary, Neosho Rapids, KS
Sawyer School, Chicago, IL
Sawyer School, Chicago, IL
Sawyer School, Chicago, IL
Ernest McGowen Elementary, Houston, TX
Ernest McGowen Elementary, Houston, TX
Batesville Primary School, Batesville, IN
Vogelweh Elementary, Kaiserslautern, NA
Vogelweh Elementary, Kaiserslautern, NA
Stratton School, Arlington, MA
Siebert Elementary, Midland, MI
Shorackappock Elementary, New York City, NY
Children's University, Arlington, TX
Zimmerman Elementary, Zimmerman, MN
Zimmerman Elementary, Zimmerman, MN
Zimmerman Elementary, Zimmerman, MN
Rogers Elementary, Rogers, MN
Pine Point School, Stonington, CT
Stratton School, Arlington, MA