Day 10

A very active day haha. I got an early start to the day. Lora, Kai, Sara, and myself all decided to walk up to the school this morning. It is about 1 1/2 hour walk to get there. But it was absolutely gorgeous! And it provides an opportunity to see the communities up close as you walk through them. And if there are kids out they love to run to you screaming "AMIGO AMIGO AMIGO" haha. It is also a very humbling experience too since most of the kids that go to the school have to make similar hikes every morning. It really shows their dedication to their studies. Today at school I had another computer class. This time it was with 6th graders. They were a bit of a challenge haha. They weren't very focused and someone has taught them how to play games, so I spent most of the class closing solitare haha. But there was one boy in the class who seems to be very knowledgeable. He was able to keep up with the lesson, and was writing his own extra documents, and attempting to connect to the internet, how little did he know that there is no internet but he did seem to comprehend the concepts. I have decided to talk to the director of the school about finding more of these kids that are showing promise in this skill and try and set up addition al classes for them. We got the composter started today, we don't have an actual roof yet, because materials are expensive and hard to come by, but we fashioned a plastic lid for now, and it seems to be working rather well. Some of the other volunteers were complaining that it smells haha. I told them that means it's working. I also managed to get bed 10 ready for planting and have got a plan set up to use old bottles to make starter pots for plants. I have also talked to one of the locals about teaching them to clone plants, they seem a little iffy about it but have agreed to let me do a practice run on some of their tomato plants to show them how it works, if the experiment is successful then I will teach them more. The water line has been finished in the garden now thanks to Juan, who is one of the local handy men. So now we have a hose in the garden, the only problem is that if someone in the school starts using the water then we don't get any until they are done haha.
Around 12pm I started helping with the PE classes, we played soccer, haha yeah didn't see that one coming did you. No.... in all seriousness we had them do drills, to practice coordination, and increase their stamina with some running drills, we also had them do stretches. For most of the class I was goaly for one team and the director of the school was the other. I only had to goals scored on me, and one of them was by a kid that I swear could give David Beckham a run for his money. He is only 10 and is just amazing! After school I decided to walk home. It was going to be a lonely adventure but then Jo decided she wanted to walk with me, but I think she regreted the decision about 30 minutes in haha. It is quite the strenuous hike. When I got home I had 4 minutes to spare before my Spanish lesson with Liz, I learned ton of new words and will have to try and use them otherwise I'm sure I'll forget haha. After that the day was pretty much done, I'm quite tired and think I'll put in a movie for a change, we have a black market copy of "Weeds" haha so maybe I'll try to get that to work. Good night everyone.