Como se dice reindeer?

And I'm back with a blog post two days in a row... With all the stuff going on in the day, I must say that I am (and you should be too) very impressed with the consistency. Today started with another commute via the chicken bus and up the gigantic hill to the school house. When the other volunteer, Andrew, and I walked in, we were greeting by a million kids saying "Buenos dias!" and then greeted by a bunch of hugs and holas. We started the day by making some Christmas cards. Since the kids are still very young and probably what we would consider behind for their grade and age levels in the States, it's kind of a challenge to think of new ways to teach them English. We started drawing things and writing the translation in English... I became very popular because of my reindeer drawing skills. One girl asked me to draw one and then another girl asked and then another and before I knew it, I probably drew twenty reindeer. Here is my original drawing:

And here is one of the girls that wanted me to draw three reindeer:

After the drawing session, we went outside to play some really unorganized game of soccer and then some tag after they got bored of that. To get to el campo de futbol (the soccer field), we walked up yet another dirt hill that stirred up tons of dirt in the air. But the field is awesome because it's just this dirt soccer field that is surrounded by mountains and trees. Here, I definitely got my exercise in, as the kids kept trying to tag me and succeeded (and I even let them get me a few times).

After the energy surge, we went back and did some reading. These kids love to be read to and books are really expensive here, so as rambunctious as they are, they sat in silence for the reading of Peter Pan in English. Of course, as soon as I read in English and they took turns reading in Spanish, they wanted to go back to another activity.

Before we knew it, it was time to say goodbye for the day. I surely learned a lot of Spanish from these kids today just by listening to them and watching what they did. And it is kind of easy to talk to them in Spanish because their level of English is just as good (if not a little better) than my Spanish. But lunch was definitely needed after that workout and before my first Spanish class. I will mention a little more tomorrow, but spoiler, I accidentally spoke French.