We´ve made it here safe and sound and we´re starting to settle into a routine. Classes at the language schol started yesterday and everyone seemed excited to be learning so much so fast. We also went to meet the little kids from the school where´we´re going to help teach English in the next three weeks.
Wow. They had a whole preseentiton for us - including a welcome from the mayor of the town, presentaitons from the kids on the history of holidays in May (mothers´ day and workers´ day), the singing of the - very long - Guatemalan national anthem and the most adorable song and dance by some of the youngest kids dressed up as animals. It was pretty impressive! We´ll go there for the first time today and work in their classes to teach them some Enlgish. More to come!At our daily meeting yesterday we all shared the most interesting or important or funny word we´ve leared so far. Here´s a sample:
- Pajilla - straw
- Perros Callejeros - stray dogs
- Disculpa - what you say when you bump into someone
- Jamon - ham
- Adivinar - to guess
- And Eddie´s favorite T-shirt ...¨no solo soy perfecto pero soy Chapin tambien.¨ (Not only am I perfect, I´m Guatemalan too.)
- Regatear - barter
More to come soon. We´ll get the kids on here writing their stories soon!
- BB
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