Social psychology homework II

Even if the days before we had shown real really compassionate behavior (giving your time without expecting any retribution, creating good relationships with your team partners and supervisors, and creating a plan to work in the community), my compassion days of showing compassion were going to start.
The people who transported us to the island showed a positive attitude towards us. Why? Because we were “estudiantes de la Universidad que vienen a ayudar” (UNAM students who came to help us), and any UNAM student is an “educated” and “important” person. It is important to point out the good reputation of UNAM in all of Mexico (a stereotype, even if it is but a positive one, a concept that has been covered during this course). This stereotype made people behave as compassionately as they could towards the students, giving their time (most of them had to stop working for several hours to take us to Basanta, and as a fisherman, some hours are literally the difference between earning enough money to buy food or not that day), and taking care of the students (teaching us what we had to do, and what things we had to avoid in order to be safe in the mangrove swamp). Even if some students did not fit this stereotype (probably cognitive dissonance made those people to behave in the way they did, even though the evidence showed something different that, in a different situation, could have made them act in a different manner). [not sure what this last part in parentheses means]
Once in on the island, one person was our personal guide during for the whole week (he did not work during this time, it was so important that we were safe and comfortable that the locals decided that it was going to be his only responsibility). We were guided to the island’s school. The size of the room was just 3 meters long and 2 meters wide! In fact it was the only school in the region, and it had just 4 students. Sometimes they did not have a professional teacher (all of them quit), whereby a member of the community who knows how to read and write, sum add and subtract, was assigned this job.
The island does not have any facilities. There were are no sewers, concrete floors, roads or paths, and with the exceptions of the community school almost all their houses are made of pieces of wood, cardboard boxes and reeds (just only some people can afford using concrete). The only source of electricity are is solar panels which the government had given them a year before we were there (they have electricity for just a couple of hours a day).