After a cross-dressed and wobble-filled
evening of Cam and Emily’s despedida festivities in Santa Cruz, this week has been packed with mini-camp on top of our usual schedule!
Mini-camp is an after school program we hold at the Cooperativa school in Chaquijyá that’s a kind of spin off of our summer camp program. For
Monday-Wednesday we get the opportunity to teach the kids English in fun
new ways. We split into three groups and are holding music,
arts/crafts, and dance/PE classes. Karianne is leading the music class
with her famous guitar/singing (look her up on iTunes: Karianne Larson), and of course
the vocal stylings of Justin Bieber while Rebecca and Juliana instruct
the children in the ancient arts of origami and egg-carton insects.
Michelle and I are dazzling the niños with our bumpin’ Cha Cha Slide
moves. Today we followed up our boogieing with some cut throat games of
Gato y Ratón (essentially a land version of Sharks and Minnows). Afterwards, we mosied across the street to Central, the other neighborhood of Chaquijyá
in which we work. Once there we partook in yet another little goodbye
party for Cam at which several children and teachers stood up to say a
few kind words of thanks to him for his service year here and a
banana/cream/sugar dessert mixed by hand was served (surprisingly
delish!), followed by a friendly game of Guatemalan vs. Gringo basketball.
Tonight we had the pleasure of engorging ourselves with some homemade
Kung Pao chicken and of welcoming Dana’s friend from across the pond,
Helen, who we’ll be hosting for the rest of the week!
With
Cam leaving this week too, I’m taking over the middle school classes
for the rest of the Summer! He’s left big shoes to fill and I’m
definitely nervous for the madness that the 40-kid class of 7th graders
can bring, but hopefully I’ll gain my bearings soon enough.
That’s all for now, folks!
Christina
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