hello hello!!
everythings wonderful here and i am blissfully happy. were living dorm style, rachel and i are in a room together sleeping on bunk beds. the food here is delicious and we live next door to a bakery.
there are 20 other volunteers here, mostly 18-22, all very interesting people.
my placement is "Hogar Comunitario Divino Nino", a government subsidized day care center run out of this woman's house. she's called "tia" (auntie) and there's 10 kids that go there, all under the age of 5. she spends all day preparing their meals and cleaning up after them, so she doesn't actually have any time to organize activities for them. they would spend most of their time watching tv or rough-housing.
enter becky.
its only been two days and im already in love with these kids. if its possible, they have shorter attention spans than i do, so we do 10 different activities every 5 minutes. they call me "Beea," although im not sure whether its an endearing nickname or just because "becky" is too hard for little kids to say.
in only two days my spanish has vastly improved. i know only the most important phrases for working with kids; 'sit down', 'stop that', 'do you need help', 'lets clean up', & 'what do you want to play'. my "tia" doesn't speak a word of english, nor do any of the kids, so the language barrier makes things a little difficult.
i love and miss you all, but im off to bed. we wake up pretty early because our carpool-vans leave the house at 7:30. i'm ready to pass out anyway. kids are exhausting.
with love,
becky
everythings wonderful here and i am blissfully happy. were living dorm style, rachel and i are in a room together sleeping on bunk beds. the food here is delicious and we live next door to a bakery.
there are 20 other volunteers here, mostly 18-22, all very interesting people.
my placement is "Hogar Comunitario Divino Nino", a government subsidized day care center run out of this woman's house. she's called "tia" (auntie) and there's 10 kids that go there, all under the age of 5. she spends all day preparing their meals and cleaning up after them, so she doesn't actually have any time to organize activities for them. they would spend most of their time watching tv or rough-housing.
enter becky.
its only been two days and im already in love with these kids. if its possible, they have shorter attention spans than i do, so we do 10 different activities every 5 minutes. they call me "Beea," although im not sure whether its an endearing nickname or just because "becky" is too hard for little kids to say.
in only two days my spanish has vastly improved. i know only the most important phrases for working with kids; 'sit down', 'stop that', 'do you need help', 'lets clean up', & 'what do you want to play'. my "tia" doesn't speak a word of english, nor do any of the kids, so the language barrier makes things a little difficult.
i love and miss you all, but im off to bed. we wake up pretty early because our carpool-vans leave the house at 7:30. i'm ready to pass out anyway. kids are exhausting.
with love,
becky
1 comments:
Dear Becky,
You are wonderful and I'm so glad you are having an awesome time! I knew you would. I plan to creepily check your blog often now, no worries. Miss you cutie.
Love,
Rachael
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