A good portion of Wareham is made up of people of Cape Verdean descent, and that number just got a little larger -- at least for the next few weeks or so.

On Friday afternoon, a group of eight female students and three chaperones landed at Logan Airport in Boston, and by the evening, they were settling into five host families’ homes in Wareham.

Since Friday, students and adults involved with the Global Education Team at Wareham High have traveled around the area with the girls from the Alfred Da Cruz Silva School in Santa Cruz, Cape Verde. They’ve eaten meals with each other. They’ve traveled around Wareham and New Bedford together. They’ve even attended classes together.

“This is a great experience for our students,” said their Principal Jose Gusebio Africano via SKYPE (on online video streaming service) at a potluck luncheon held to welcome the group to Wareham Saturday afternoon. “I’m very thankful for this partnership, and I’m very interested in continuing it with you. We can take this partnership to another level.”

At Wareham High, the Global Education Team is a group organized in 2010  to help build relationships with students from around the world. In 2013, eight Wareham students and five Wareham Public Schools staff members visited Cape Verde, and in 2016, a group of Wareham students are expected to visit Cape Verde themselves.

Team Leader Henry St. Julien said the partnership with the school from Cape Verde has now lasted for over 10 years.

“I’m so excited to now have some students in 2015,” he said. “I hope we learn from one another.”

At the luncheon, Joao Paulo Lopes Cardoso, one of the chaperones with the group from Cape Verde, said that when he was younger, he himself was part of another group of students to travel to Wareham. He said that it was then that he decided to become a teacher himself.

“I want it to continue so our students get more knowledge about different cultures,” he said of the partnership.

Over the course of the next few weeks, the students will travel to each and every school in Wareham. They’ll attend Wareham High School sporting events. There will be a visit to Boston, and the students will also meet and visit with Dr. Dana Mohler-Faria, the president of Bridgewater State University and resident of Wareham.

Africano, glowing with excitement that his students were enjoying the first leg of their trip to town, seemed equally excited of the possibility of some of Wareham’s students going to Cape Verde.

“Our doors are open here and we expect you to come next year,” said Africano.