The food continues to be plentiful and delicious. Although we feel like we are eating a lot, it is without the customary snacking that several of us are used to so maybe we're not eating more but just differently. Maybe better.
We spent the morning in our group of six debriefing, questioning and planning together. After expressing concern about continuing shadowing at the school for two or three additional days, Jenn and Meghan agreed to adjust the itinerary. We made the change both because we felt it wasn't the best use of our time and because the teachers have already lost a month of school to a recent strike, have two weeks of vacation next week and have futbol fever along with their students. As it turned out, the teachers seemed relieved about the change of plans, too.
We had lunch in Linda Vista at the home of a family who hosts cooking classes and was going to host Jenn before we changed communities. With rain pounding all around, we ate, visited their horse, and communicated as well as possible with our emergent Spanish. Lovely family. We saw the horse again later when the father delivered fresh eggs on horseback to the Eco-lodge.
Back at the lodge, we worked with Jenn on understanding global competencies and played a game about leadership and dominant traits. We also looked at a couple of example itineraries to further our work on designing HPA trips.
The moment had arrived for us to divide and join our homestay families for the next three nights. Daena and I were warmly welcomed by Wendy and her three bright, lovely and very polite children (Yosey-15, Daniel-9, Melanie-6). We are communicating and translating as well as possible. Pretty
ugly Spanish at times but we're managing, and they are very patient and helpful. The three kids are studying Inglés so we might switch languages for them to practice tomorrow, which could prove more successful for everyone.
In addition to food, there is abundant coffee drinking. Hard to resist because it's delicious and also to be polite. It might be messing with our sleep tonight. Or something like that.
We spent the morning in our group of six debriefing, questioning and planning together. After expressing concern about continuing shadowing at the school for two or three additional days, Jenn and Meghan agreed to adjust the itinerary. We made the change both because we felt it wasn't the best use of our time and because the teachers have already lost a month of school to a recent strike, have two weeks of vacation next week and have futbol fever along with their students. As it turned out, the teachers seemed relieved about the change of plans, too.
We had lunch in Linda Vista at the home of a family who hosts cooking classes and was going to host Jenn before we changed communities. With rain pounding all around, we ate, visited their horse, and communicated as well as possible with our emergent Spanish. Lovely family. We saw the horse again later when the father delivered fresh eggs on horseback to the Eco-lodge.
Back at the lodge, we worked with Jenn on understanding global competencies and played a game about leadership and dominant traits. We also looked at a couple of example itineraries to further our work on designing HPA trips.
The moment had arrived for us to divide and join our homestay families for the next three nights. Daena and I were warmly welcomed by Wendy and her three bright, lovely and very polite children (Yosey-15, Daniel-9, Melanie-6). We are communicating and translating as well as possible. Pretty
ugly Spanish at times but we're managing, and they are very patient and helpful. The three kids are studying Inglés so we might switch languages for them to practice tomorrow, which could prove more successful for everyone.
In addition to food, there is abundant coffee drinking. Hard to resist because it's delicious and also to be polite. It might be messing with our sleep tonight. Or something like that.
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