The little rural school

La Bajada on the Guanacahabibes peninsula in Cuba’s westernmost part is the island’s first or last community, depending on how your look at it.

In that settlement, where the sun hides on the island, there are thirty scattered houses. At the heart of the village, facing the sea and surrounded by amazing nature, the little rural school named Isaac Crespo receives a dozen students every day enrolled in the second to sixth grades and who all study in the same classroom.

One of the children dreams of being a karate expert and win a gold medal at the Olympics; another aspires to be a frontier guard, like the ones who stand next to the school; and two of the girls want to study teaching, like their teacher, Magdalena, who for many years has arrived early every Monday and not returned home until the end of the week on Friday because her house is 36 kilometers from La Bajada.