Day Two

The second day was as good as the first. Im really impressed by the four participants. Today i left it in their hands. Diego and Claudia taught the older kids. Claudia took initiative to create a worksheet for parts of the body. They used it to springboard Into teaching them to sing and move to the song "Head shoulders knees and toes". Diego went the extra step to stand on the table to demonstrate. The kids loved it.

Kaleigh and Jonathan taught the younger students some simple introductory sayings. When I walked in they were practicing "I love you". Both have a great presence in front of these kids. Kaleigh a soft spoken quintessential kindergarten teacher and Jonathan a gentle giant to these kids.

After an hour the energy was bursting from their little bodies, so we went to the football field. It was a uneven, badly rutted pitch cut into the side of a hill with two rusting, misshapen goals on each end and a ravine on one side. We played dodgeball and freeze tag and then just made the boys line up and yell out words and letters we learned before we allowed them to kick the ball at some poor soul who stood in goal. Meanwhile the girls went back to the classrooms and played hangman with their new English words. Claudia and Kaleigh cannot walk in this village now without at least a pair of adoring gap toothed girls tied to their hips. It's a great sight to see.