To tired to write

May 7, 2010

I dreampt a little in Spanish last night, but it was mostly a bunch of children coming up to me and asking me stuff and I was trying to reply them...but had a hard time as usual. :P

Mother´s day fiesta at our school today (El Sinai). We were asked to buy plates, cups, and napkins for the food. The mothers of the children were invited to come to the school. As soon as we arrived, the teachers kept asking us for something to buy... we couldn´t figure it out... but Richard when by taxi with his host brother (who he actually just met that day, and maybe is married to one of the teachers) to go back to our town to get it. It was balloons - they wanted to use them to decorate the school. We didn´t have to prepare a lesson plan for that day. We watched/listened to the children sing a song for their parents (I took a video...which ended up being 11 minutes long!)
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In the evening (after dinner) we had a meeting at Arte Accion. We talked about Food Aid(because the three schools that we are volunteering at ran out of food). We collectively decided to buy enough food for each school to last them a month from the money that we fundraised. We also were informed about the ¨situation¨at Santa Cruz. Apparently, since the coup the teacher was fired because she supports the opposite political party (liberal) to the current political party (nationalist). They were considering closing the school down and they were looking to replace the teacher. When we were discussing Food Aid, we talked about how it is a sort of ´band aid´solution to problems in countries that are stricken by poverty. We dicussed how lack of education and opportunity keep indigenous Maya people in a cycle that is structured to keep them poor. In spite of the negative things that we realized were masking Food Aid and Development Aid, we were all happy that we could provide food for the children to eat.
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Went to Richard and Elisia´s house to have a few drinks in their ´out door living room´. We had so much fun and listened to some music...dancing, etc. Richard´s host sister really likes to dance (she is so good)... She showed me some latina moves and I found that we like the same type of music. There is also a guy from the states living with them. He is volunteering as a missonary in Santa Cruz and will stay with them for about the same time we are here in Honduars. We ventured to a place in town afterward to continue dancing. Everyone thinks I´m a good dancer, so I try teaching them my ´cool´ moves

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