Last Day with the Kids

A sad day as it is the last day with the kids. Although our group hasn't bonded like the group in Guatemala did, the kids and my group had a lot of fun together. There are some striking contrasts between the two sites where we volunteer. In Samara, it is mostly the older kids (because of the time we offer the program). They are probably the more serious students and therefore we had a lot of fun with them because they were motivated to be there. The El Torito crew is much poorer, younger, crazier, and much more of them. It was often like herding cats. Yesterday both groups drew pictures about what they liked best about our past three weeks. In Samara, the dominant theme was the obstacle course game we often played- girls versus guys. In El Torito it was the "market" game where we gave them money and they got to buy things at various types of stores. All in all I think we succeeded in what we came to do. To teach a little English, to make friends,
Today we are having our goodbye party, a little ice cream social.