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Wednesday, October 04, 2006

Sitting Still in the Biblioteca

I´ve discovered kids can´t do this. I always thought they couldn´t....but this morning validated it. Put 19 of them on the floor....3 to a floor mat and watch what they do. Very interesting.

The teacher Elisa had some control, but not for long. I was helping her out in the library, along with 1 other volunteer. There were also 2 other teachers there. They were both local, and will be taking over the library program when Elisa leaves (which is at the end of the month).

We didn´t have much time to talk, but I did find out Elisa is American, and has been here for 1.5 years. I would guess she is in her early 20´s. I´m finding that there are alot of teachers that come here to volunteer and learn Spanish once they get their degree. All really young and trying to figure out what they want to do with their lives. Poor things. Living the rough life here in Guatemala!

I didn´t do much this morning, other than try to control these kids while washing their hands before they made pretzels from scratch (yes, I thought that was an interesting activity in the library........but I guess you do anything to get their attention). Once they were baked, they made cards for their favorite teachers and placed a pretzel in the card. I have no idea where the oven was, I just saw the other volunteer leave the room with the baking trays.

These kids were in grade 1. I even helped 2 little girls with a bit of their reading when they wondered off from the group (Spanish book on the Chicken who thought the Sky was falling).

This happened a lot. Kids doing their own thing. Boredom sets in early in life I guess!

The kids are getting ready for their school break, so I´m not sure what I will be doing everyday......today was more like a breaking in period.

The true test is if I will go back!! I might get bored too!

To all my TEACHER friends (and I have many)................you sure have a tough job in keeping the kids attention!!

Ask for a raise.

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