Once a week we teach English at a school way out in the middle of nowhere. We put Fred (the white truck we get to drive) in 4 wheel drive and head out for 45 minutes on a bumpy, rocky road. It's absolutely important to be sure you have an empty bladder and empty stomach before this venture. If not, you'll be nauseous and very uncomfortable. I plan the lesson, make the posters and materials, and Kyle does the teaching. We make a great team! Oh yea the secret ingredient...Yari...she translates and helps us keep the kids in order.
It is a one room school house with kids from 6 to 14 years old.
They love to help color the posters.
The classroom.
Kyle teaching the colors.
As a culminating activity after learning numbers, colors, and body parts in English, we played the monster game. Kyle says, "This monster has 3 red heads," and the kids have to draw 3 red heads however and wherever they want on their paper. Then, he says, "This monster has 7 blue eyes," and they put the eyes wherever they want. It started out rough, but they got the idea in the end and drew some really creative monsters.
Can you imagine going to school with this view, no electricity, and no noise all day?
This is Julio's family and house (the house on the left only). He and his wife have 7 kids. They are from an indigenous Indian group called the Ngobe. Their little girl in the blue dressed asked us last week if she can have shoes. So we brought her shoes and she smiled from ear to ear!!!!
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