Alicia’s Amazing Trip To Puerto Rico

El Increible Viaje de Alicia a Puerto Rico

During her summer vacation before entering junior high, Alicia convinces her mom to take a once in a lifetime trip to Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico is an island located between the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean. Alicia is overwhelmed with joy and excitement, because she and her mom will travel throughout the enchanted island visiting different towns from Old San Juan to Mayaguez. They both experience the language, culture, history, and geographic locations of such places as El Moro, La Casa Blanca, La Fortaleza, and the Capilla Del Cristo, which are all located in Old San Juan. While visiting Ponce, they got a chance to see the beautiful Parque De Bombas, which is a historical red and black firehouse that resembles a wax museum. They adored seeing the antique fire trucks, electric lights, and the octagon shaped windows.

In Western Puerto Rico, Alicia and Miss Runfio experienced the sights and sounds of Cabo Rojo, which is a coastal, rocky, beach stretching almost 20 miles. Perhaps, the most adventurous trip that Alicia and her mom took was visiting the town of Camuy, where they traveled hundreds of feet below the steep, dark, and scary caves covered with stalactite rocks. Can you imagine us wearing orange protective hats as though we were professional miners?

The Most Beautiful City

During the (2015-2016) school year, Walter had the unique and fortunate opportunity to teach in a first grade, dual language program at Hunt Club Elementary School. After reading one of his first grade anchor-text entitled, Señorita Runfio from the new Ready-Gen series, he felt inspired to write his own children’s book. Walter has always felt the passion to write whenever he is motivated and encouraged to tell a story in unusual and “extreme circumstances”. During his entire teaching career, he has used the strategy of Daily Interactive Journal Writing as an effective learning tool to meet the social and emotional needs of all the learners that he has taught. In times of leisure and pleasure, he enjoys travelling with his wife, Marg on getaways, watching Chicago Cubs and Bears sport teams, conducting seminars, workshops, attending Church and Bible studies, and last but not least, sharing The Good News of the Gospel as an interactive minister of the Pentecostal Assemblies of the World. He is a huge believer and doer of an old proverb that says,” Good, better, best will never let you rest, until the good gets better and the better gets best. Practice makes us all better!”