Mother Nature has not been kind to our Brazilian exchange students from Colégio e Faculdade São Luiz!
Last year they were making snowmen in Mississippi and this year they were simply “making do” as a brutal winter storm knocked out power, iced roads and closed schools and businesses for a week in January. With the power out at Sacred Heart Southern Missions‘ volunteer house, the students moved to cots at Sacred Heart School – Southaven, MS where generators kept the heat on and water running.
But even in the midst of a weather-adapted schedule the Brazilian students joined their Mississippi counterparts in online classes (including doing a little teaching of their own during math classes), strengthened friendships, and as they wrote in their report to classmates back in Brazil: “lived intensely the four pillars of a Unesco education: learning to know, learning to do, learning to live together, and learning to be.”
