Lázaro Cárdenas Elementary, 6th Grade
Lázaro Cárdenas Elementary is located in the La Salud Community, Ejido Angangueo (neighbouring Ejido to Ejido El Rosario). It is located on way to El Rosario Sanctuary.

All churches and chapels in the region are belonging to the Catholic religion and are of rather modern construction. The churches and the school are the center of each community.  Mostly when a community gets any kind of help or support by local or state governments, the local families themselves always ask for improvement to their chapel or the school in terms of painting, re-roofing, and re-flooring. Rarely, or never, a community will ask for a library, a music or art center for children, or any additional aspect for improving the children’s education. The church and the school are the main meeting places for people’s communities for festivals or community business. Teachers and Priests are highly respected figures in our local culture.

While writing and decorating their letters to their counterparts in Canada and US, children wrote several phrases expressing their enthusiasm to care even more about their local natural surrounding, for the sake of Monarchs and their own!

You can see that at this school students are not eating very nutritious snacks like is still seen in some schools at break time. Many children are allowed to bring their toys to school to play at breaktime, which seems to make children very, very happy.

Students very much enjoyed their gifts, crowding around Estela at handling their Ambassador Monarchs back. They say they wished they could keep them, but were excited to know that their Ambassador Monarch will fly away back to US and Canada. They were very excited for their counterparts to receive their letters!

Two girls very proudly showed their Ambassador Monarchs that came all the way from Canada!

When the day was over and the Ambassador Monarchs were packed into the basket, all of them want to help take her back to Rocinante! All of them wanedt to carry the flags or the maps, or the basket!  The ones who manage walk feeling highly honored to carry the flags, specially!

The final two-three photos show a father of any local family coming down to town with their donkeys/horses loaded with some chimney timber to sell. This brings income for a whole family.  Today this man will make about 200 pesos at selling both loads of timber, then he will buy goods for the family while in town.  This is an ancestral practice, not damaging the forests reserves really, since this activity represents a really minor forest practice.
Estela also watched a local family enthusiastically coming down to town to church service bringing Child Jesus elaborately dressed up due to a special day for it in Church.

Estela Romero
Angangueo, Michoacán, México.

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

Providence Day School, Charlotte, NC
Chestnut Hill School, Chestnut Hill, MA
Lincoln School, Lincoln, MA
Dean Luce Elementary, Canton, MA
Genesee Lake School, Oconomowoc, WI
Saint Vincent Euphrasia Elementary, Meaford, ON
Mary Star of the Sea, Honolulu, HI
Johnson School, Nahant, MA
Sparhawk School, Amesbury, MA
Sparhawk School, Amesbury, MA
Elizabeth Morrow School, Englewood, NJ
Elizabeth Morrow School, Englewood, NJ
Elizabeth Morrow School, Englewood, NJ
Randolph Elementary, Crozier, VA
Pembroke Hill, Kansas City, MO
Emmorton Elementary, Bel Air, MO
Johnson Elementary, Fort Thomas, KY
Boulton Elementary, Bountiful, UT
World Language Academy, Flowery Branch, GA
Clark Elementary, Charlottesville, VA
Horace W. Porter School, Columbia, CT
Calvert School, Baltimore, MD
J.R. Walkof School, Winkler, MB
Kingsway College School, Etobicoke, ON
Highland Heights Public School, Peterborough, ON
Emily Carr Public School, London, ON