July 8: Head, Shoulders, Knees and Choes

Friday morning I had my second language interview, we all get evaluated halfway through training to readjust our language levels and groups. After the interviews we went to another school visit. We got to the school at the end of recreo, so we joined in on the games for a little while. I played volley with some girls while they filled me in on who liked who :-P Nick and I taught an English class to ten year olds this time. We taught them Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes. The “t” is a little tough for them to pronounce so it comes out like a “ch” most of the time, but they really seemed to like the activity. Now I know that none of you know Nick, but he’s a little over six feet tall and blond….why is this relevant you ask? Well part of our activity was taping the names of body parts to Nick’s actual body. The kids were climbing over each other to be able to tape things to the “giant gringo’s” face. It was all I could do not to fall over. That would have been a fine impression for our trainers, no? Me lying on the floor and Nick wandering around the front of class with one shoe on and paper stuck all over his face :-P Why only one shoe? You might wonder to yourself. The sticky note for “choes” had to go somewhere. After the English lesson we took them outside to play Pato Pato Ganzo. (That’s Duck Duck Goose to you.) The kids loved making us the goose so they could run screaming and laughing in a circle while we chased. You think it might have gotten old after a few times, but no. What did I learn this morning? Kids are kids, no matter what language they’re speaking :-P

After the school visit we had a medical chat with Jorge, I know you guys are as excited about these as I am now. The man really needs a tv show or at least a video series :-P Friday’s was on drugs and alcohol. It was pretty much what you expect on the subject, don’t do drugs and don’t drink too much. There were a few exceptions though. For one, we were taught the proper etiquette for a drinking circle…that’s right, the medic taught us how to politely drink in groups :-P We also got a list of places that might surprise us to find alcohol, my favorite was the school board meetings ha ha ha. After Jorge’s talk we met with our TAPs groups……turns out we’re going to La Libertad for field based training!!!! Stay tuned!