Tuesday, September 06, 2005

SO BUSY

First - life is great

Second - I have never been more busy in my life.

This will be a short post as I barely have time to breath. To update everyone on the party it was wonderful. It turns out my host father is the head of operations for a collectivo (kind of like a bus) company. In the morning we got in his family´s collective and were part of a parade throughout Huancayo. All the collectivos were covered in flower,balloons, etc. We then arrived at a field where the party was held. There were a little over a hundred people I think and there was lots of dancing. Imagine me, linked arm and arm with a peruvian man, trying to follow a traditional huancayo dance. It wasnt pretty but it was fun. Basically they cut down trees the day before covered them with prizes , dug holes in the ground and put the trees back up at the party. We danced around the trees for 12 hours! yes 12. As for the duck dressed in peruvian garb, it died. Thats all i´m going to say about poor mr. duck.

My schedule is this 8am to 9 am I work with 3 other girls in a center ( basically a room with no wall on the street sidfe) with street children. We teach basic english and play games. Then from 930 to 11 I go to an orphange and play with babies with special needs. Then myself and 2 other girls teach basic english and dental hygiene to 30, 5 year olds! THEN i have lunch and then myself and Nia teach 9,10,11 year olds english for 2 hours. THEN I have 2 hours of spanish class, then I come home and prepare lessons and worksheets for the next day and then i sleep.

SOrrry for any grammatical or spelling errors. ESTOY CANSADA!

peace out and ill update when i can.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

12 hrs?!?! Man, talk about a dance marathon, huh? Sounds like you have marathon work days as well ... that's awesome all the good stuff you get to do.

Anonymous said...

nice blog. one of my favorite places, too.

Anonymous said...

also, the mets are really blowing it.

Anonymous said...

Welcome to the world of teaching my dear, how nice of you to join us!!! ( 20 dollars....) HAHA! miss you keep havin fun and workin hard!