School - Day 1 - Plant Diversity

  

Inside school

Outside school

We had our first day of teaching the kids yesterday!! It was sooo freaking adorable! I had this kid named David who could barely speak any English, just the colors and animals.  But that was actually totally fine with me because I could practice my Spanish with him!! We played BINGO, leaf crayon rubbings, and some games to get the kids to run around and have fun.  I’m putting up some pictures of the school and of me and David!!  He’s the cutest! He is 8 by the way.  But it was pretty awesome how well a lot of them could speak English and how much they knew about plants at such a young age since they have grown up in a jungle all their lives where everywhere you look there’s a new tree branch!  But here’s a picture of their gym and the view off the side! It’s sooo beautiful.  I would totally play soccer there.. and that’s a stretch because I don’t play soccer.

Inside gym

View from gym

Me and David

We got back and had lunch which was soooo good!! There was arroz con pollo which means “rice with chicken.”  Then we had class which was really interesting.  It was our first introduction to our Language, Gender, and Culture class.  It was really cool.  We compared all of the stereotypes of women and men and decided which were natural or constructed.  We’ll end up getting a lot more deeper into the conversations once the 8^th graders are gone!  I’m actually looking forward to them because they will get REALLY interesting.   

After we had dinner, we watched this movie called Nell.  It’s about this woman who used to live with her mother in the middle of a bunch of mountains and her mom is paralyzed in half of her face which made her speech off.  Therefore, after her mother passed away and the police and doctor’s found out that she had a daughter living there that they never knew existed they thought she was speaking a different language when all along it was just English with a weird accent because she was so used to hearing her mom.  So the whole movie is about her and whether she’ll be sent to a mental hospital or be treated like any other human being.  So it mainly taught us that you don’t judge a person because you can’t communicate with them.  Therefore their intelligence doesn’t change. 

Sorry I didn’t write all that much! I know a lot of y’all might have expected more!!