(5/30/12) On Tuesday we went to a school in the cloud forest called Creativo. This is a Montessori school, the children here have a lot more freedom than most students in Costa Rica and definitely more freedom compared to the students in the United States. They had a preschool class in Creativo as well. Their 3-4 year old class was called Kinder while their 5-6 year old class was called Prepa which was comparable to our kindergarten classes here in the states. The curriculums were basically the same except they have one teacher that speaks English only and teaches lessons in English and another who does the same but only in Spanish. I really liked this aspect of the school. I have been talking to a lot of teachers here in the different schools we’ve been to and so far I have discovered that the preschool system and curriculum is strikingly similar to the preschools in the United States. This kind of surprised me but at the same time I thought it was really cool that the two countries are so similar. I really don’t want to leave Costa Rica; I am really enjoying my time here.