First Week of CAMP!!!

Yay!!!!!!!!!! This week was AWESOME. I am in LOVE with my kids! They are just so smart and sweet. Personal space bubbles are WAY smaller here and the kids are super affectionate as a result.

Every day we eat breakfast at the hotel and get to camp by 8 am, where the kids have usually been waiting since 7. We get our groups at 8:30 to take them to their first class. Classes in the adolescent camp where I work are math, english, reading/writing, futbol para la vida (aka Grassroots Soccer which is kind of like sex ed), health, and for our kids pre-internship class.

We eat lunch at 12:30 and are out at 3 every day but Tuesday and Thursday, when I help teach an ESL class for the local volunteers until 4:30. After this I usually go to a student's house.

Visiting the students is a GREAT experience. They have very little by US standards but are so happy and proud. They make sure you are well fed. Usually I buy the meat and drink and they cook up a fantastic meal. It's a system of hospitality and sharing here and it's a LOT less individualistic than in the states.

I'm going to Church with a volunteer named Pepito today. It doesn't start until 7:30, but he likes to go at 5:30 to pray. Isn't that awesome?! I'm really excited.

Weird sighting of the day: On the way out of the hotel we stopped in shock to watch a man dancing with a rooster. He was picking it up and throwing it by the wing and pulling it in figure eights around his legs. We can only assume it was somehow related to cock fighting.

That's all for now. I love you guys!!!