The next morning, we got up at 7 to go help a group of high school boys practice their theatre assignment. The colegio has two different sessions offering different types of classes, so these boys attend the afternoon session. We went up to the roof of a church next to one of their houses where they practice in the mornings. It was an incredible view! Chris and I had some ideas for fun activities to help their acting skills, so we did all of those. One was a slow motion race, but some of the boys ruined it by just running. Others actually enjoyed themselves. Another activity was Dead Weight where two people interact in a situation (like two doctors performing surgery) but they cannot move their bodies, so two other people have to move their bodies for them. We also did Translator where one person is foreign and has their translator communicate for them. For example, when my group did this activity, Yesenia used blinking as her mode of communication and Kayla could understand blinking as well as speak English to us. We also did the party game where the host of the party has to guess who his guests are, after we have chose fun characters for the guests to act out. It was a fun morning and gave me hope for high school students. Right after, we spent a little time with one of the boys and his sister’s family, playing guitar and drinking coffee. Then we had to go to the colegio in order for Stacie to plan her next session of Joven a Joven with her counterpart. While she planned, Chris and I observed a civics class. It was so boring. Not only was it a whole lot of Spanish that I don’t know, but for 40 minutes straight the teacher stood in front of the students and talked. He never asked questions, never wrote on the board, and never gave them a chance to speak. Good thing PC has a program to teacher methodology to teachers.
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| Mixing ingredients for chocolate brownies! |
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| In the toaster oven they go! |
We went home to eat lunch and then had to go teach TEAM (Teaching English and Methodology) from 2-4. Chris is a music guy so he wanted to go watch the school band practice for the Independence Day parade (September 15), but I went to help Stacie. I think TEAM will be the first program I feel comfortable doing because although you have to know Spanish to communicate with your class, you are teaching English so it is not as difficult. After TEAM, we visited with a few different neighbors and went to go walking with some of Stacie’s friends on the same road towards the river. We did not actually make it to the river this time, but it was a nice walk. On the way back, we stopped in a few houses to meet and visit with more people, like the mayor and the colegio director. Stacie has worked hard to create and maintain these close personal relationships, and it has paid off when she needs help with projects. After these visits, we went to have dinner at the same comedor, and then went home to make materials for her Joven a Joven class the next day. We stayed up pretty late because our conversations kept getting off topic. One conversation about chocolate reminded Stacie that she had a brownie mix she had been waiting to make and she had just bought a toaster oven in the city the weekend before. So for the first time in Honduras, I ate chocolate! And for the first time ever, I cooked brownies in a toaster oven. It actually worked well and kind of reminded me of an EZ Bake Oven.
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| Every view is incredible. |
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| Slow-motion race. |
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| Dead Weight activity. |
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| Stacie learning guitar. |
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