"Mom!  I made friends!"  Kesia greeted her mother, after her first day of school.  And, sure enough, she had addresses and phone numbers of two of her classmates.  She also complained about a boy who follows her around and smiles at her "for no good reason!"

On Tuesday, her second day of school, she got to go to Pizza Hut and play on a big slide in the play area.  The slide had a big drop and she went down really fast!

At Academia Americana Kesia is learning Spanish from her friends, and she has to buy her snacks, rather than having them provided.  She goes to school early in the morning, at 6:50 and gets out at 1:15, because it is too hot to go to school in the afternoon. 

Seth is also learning Spanish, and his English teacher has warned him not to trust any of his friends to teach him Spanish words.  "They will trick you and you will get sent to the principal's office because of the words that you are saying," he explains.  Seth is enjoying playing soccer during the lunch break. 
Both kids have so many books to carry, that they take a small suitcase to school, rather than a backpack.  They have a lot of homework and say the teachers are pretty strict.  Kesia was waned that she had to trim her fingernails and remove her nail polish on the first day of school, and the principal told Seth, after seeing his passport picture when he had long, braided hair, that he never would have been allowed in to the school looking like that.