Some reflections

In the beginning of this 2010, I went to spend two months in a small town located in British Columbia, Canada to have my last practical placement.

As you can imagine… that was an intercultural experience… for the kids and for me because I was also living in a different culture, as I am from a Western country was not so different.

In that part of the country, the “Sunshine Coast” there is a lot of European descendants and they live together with First Nations, some of the First Nations lives in one part of the town but some of the children attend the same schools that the Canadian children. They are used to live together and to share the space.

In the class where I was doing my practical placement besides a First Nations girl, there was a boy from India, another from Korea and a girl with autism, they were all included in the normal activity in the class The girl with autism sometimes needed an assistant teacher or just some more space than the rest of the kids. But the kids helped the other kids that found some things more difficult to do it or to understand it.

I think that work together with different nationalities, personalities or different ways of how do the things helps you to grow as a person, to enrich you.