I forgot to mention yesterday that when we got to the part where we were going to start hiking up the mountain towards the glacier.. there was a dog and a young llama cuddling together. Adorable.
Today with the kids was lots of fun. I took the girls group and ended up with eight girls, which was a pretty big group compared to the usual and is especially big when trying to teach them English. They were completely distracted by the boys, who were being really bad, and one of the girls was goofing off like crazy, but finger on your nose along with a sticker rewards system that we are making helps quiet them down a bit. taught them hello, goodbye, and introductions today. we were supposed to get through a lot more but they take quite a while to get it down, especially with prononuciations, they say I like EE, the spanish pronunciation, so everything sounds way off.
So I was in the middle of my lesson, writing on the white board and making the kids repeat things after me, and in walks a sheep. The kids didnt seem to think much of it, I guess its pretty normal around here, but the other volunteers and I had to try sooo hard to not laugh and get the kids all riled up. It´s also hard during the lessons because in the classroom area, there are a bunch of kittens and puppies that live there that the kids want to play with. But for the most part, they are pretty good about paying attention and wanting to learn, because it isn´t a required program, they come there after school on their own.
After an hour of a lesson, we went to play outside for an hour. Red light green light, a game called matagente (meaning kill people - i dont know what it is, the kids play it themselves), and a bit of monkey in the middle, which was hilarious when the tiny kids tried to throw the ball over the heads of the older ones. One of the girls brought snacks for everyone at the end, which was super sweet. The volunteers ate the one chocolate bar cause it was too hard to divide up between the 17 kids we had today :D
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please tell me you have a photo of the dog and llama cuddling! that is fantastic. :)
ReplyDeleteand, i love the sheep story. did it bahhhh at you guys?
que comico!