DAY 9 Friday May 22:

Beth…

Today, after waking up still salty from the sea in Rancho Fifo and having breakfast with Louisa, we went onto class for our last serious day.  We decided to review more vocabulary in hopes that they would be able to use it in the questions we had taught them. 

Today, Kate was the one with a skillful teaching trick. At the end of class, we asked everyone to prepare a question with new vocabulary to share with the class. We asked for volunteers before choosing groups to go. We were happy to have about 6 groups go before we had to start choosing. At the end, as a reward, Kate gave candy to all the volunteers as a surprise. Nicely done J

In the afternoon, we hung out with are little friends Alminton, Ronal, and Julio. Almiton loves Kate’s camera, so it wasn’t long before we were having a photo shoot of our own. For one of the pictures, Julio brought his pet parrot over, and Kate decided to pose for a picture with it. Right after the picture, the bird poo pooed all over her hand.

The camera: $200

The Bird: $5

Her expression while squealing “He just pooed on me, he POOOED on ME!!”: priceless.

Thank you Lord for sweet moments like these J

Not long afterward, we decided to cool off from the heat in the ocean with Amilcar. The tide was rather high and the water rough, so we were too chicken to go far in. Amilcar however, flipped and ran through the waves like no one’s business. Needless to say, having that tiny boy half my size go twice as far out as me was a bit embarrassing, but it’s all good.

We returned to Rancho Fifo soon after, and drank orange juice on the hammock to relax. It was what we in the US like to call “the good life”.  After yet a bit more napping, we held afternoon class.

For our class, we played hangman to review vocabulary. We decided to make it a competition between us and the class, trying to see if we could outsmart them with difficult words or expressions. Turns out, we can’t. Afterward, they decided to give us the same challenge and use difficult Spanish words. I am proud to announce that we won all three games and reclaimed our hangman respect. One of the words was the friggin national bird who’s sounds like someone is gagging, I think we did ourselves proud.

The rest of the day was spent relaxing and hanging out with our little friends. I am sad to say it was our last day of our full week L.