Escuela

First things first. I hate Brandon Jennings.

Now, things at the school have settled down significantly. I wanted to write yesterday about how things went but I was unable to use the computer. The past two days have been pretty action packed, however, less hectic. I will start with Tuesday.

Yesterday Shannon, Tyler, and I arrived to the school at about 9 AM. We taught English in as a team to three different ages. The middle kids (what we call the 9-12 year olds) are by far the best. They are eager to learn and retain the information well. Teaching to the younger kids is kind of a lost cause. Today Tyler and I read them Curious George in Spanish and they were entranced by the story. The older kids try but do not learn very easily but I think our presence there is important.

After school about 20 kids stayed which soon turned into our normal group of about 7 or 8 kids, Martita and the three gringos (white people, us). They told us that we were going to go for a walk/hike. It was pouring when we left with our umbrellas but let up pretty soon. We weren´t totally sure where we were going and soon ended up walking down this mountain. As we got further down the mountain we were wondering why the heck we were doing this. But Shannon pointed out if a 48 year old woman was doing this in a dress with the biggest smile ever, then we could laugh about it too. As we climbed down even farther we were able to see that below us was a soccer field with a few kids playing soccer and we figured out why they brough us here. We played some 5 on 5 soccer for about an hour and then hiked back up the mountain.

Tyler Shannon and I hung out with Samuel, Martita, Jocelyn, and Brandon for another hour or two and they gave us dinner. It was a great time. We had to walk home though because the busses stop running at 6 and it was about 6:30. When we were walking home we had to stop on the side of the road because there was a big puddle blocking our path. We decided to wait until all the cars had passed which would be a minute. We stodd on the side of the road and everyone was laughing as the cars went by. I was about 70% sure that we were about to be engulfed in a wave from an oncoming car but nobody else seemed to care. They were all laughing thinking about how fun this was. I think that experience really changed some things for me. I realized how for these kids and Martita, nothing had gone wrong in a couple days. If a car had driven by and splashed us (which didn´t happen) I am pretty sure that everyone would have just laughed.

Today was pretty similar in school to yesterday. After school was over today we went to the museum. The museum was really boring. If you want to know about it, you can read shannon´s blog, she probably liked it.

The one interesting thing that happened was before we went to the museum, it wasn´t raining at all. Wr got on the bus and during the 10 minute bus ride it started pouring. Once we got off the bus it was raining super hard and there was puddles everywhere. By the time we got inside I felt like I had just gone swimming, well maybe not quite that bad but we were pretty wet. Again, nobody cared, they all thought it was funny.

They are showing us such great care at the school. We can tell that they are doing everything they can to serve us the best food they can for lunch and dinner. Unfortunately, sometimes that is food that we have a little trouble keeping in. Since it is rude here to not finish your food, we always finish everything we get. The only thing that has been too rough to eat was this cheese thing they give us. It´s like a square of cottage cheese that is hard and super salty. Tonight I figured that if you put it in the bread and put eggs on top it, you can´t taste it that much.

Well, I suppose that´s all I have for now. I will write more about Samuel, Jocelyn, and Brandon later. They are amazing kids and I really like them all already, even though we don´t speak the same language. If anyone wants to adopt them, let me know. They´re all siblings.

-Colter