Day 12: June 2nd

Today was a pretty uneventful day in the school. We were able to see the students actual learn some material. One of the subjects that were taught was mathematics. The teacher was working on greater than and less than. She had a pretty interesting way to teach the concept. She compared every number to see if they were less than or greater than. It was a new way that I had seen and I enjoyed getting to see the students learn the material. The students were put into teams: boys vs. girls. They then had to come up to the board, write the problem, and solve it first. The students also worked on grammar at a later part in the morning. I did not know what all of the sentences were saying, but with the help of my handy-dandy dictionary I was able to translate the sentences. The teacher worked on nouns and modifiers for those nouns. The teacher didn’t really do anything that was exciting or different. She just wrote the sentences on the board and had students underline the modifier and noun.

After school, everyone except Kimberly and McKenzie came back to Dorita’s house. We all ate lunch which was sandwiches, but three people were not feeling good: Melanie, Jenny, and Monica. Monica stayed at Dorita’s house well the rest of us went to the artisans market by the airport. The market was much nicer than the one in Antigua. Each vendor had their own individual indoor port and we were able to shop a lot nicer. People did not bombard us and I felt a lot more comfortable walking around by myself and scoping out the goods.

Later in the afternoon, Melanie was not feeling good so she stayed home for the evening. Corina, Dorita, and I went to the soccer game of Julio and Emilio, sons of one of the host families. On the car ride, Dorita played one of her favorite CD. The first song was called Secreto Amor, Secret Love. Dorita sang as Corina translated. I was so super excited to see a soccer game in another country. It was a small field, but there was a good cheering crowd: Molly, Mckenzie, Bobby, Kimberly, Dorita, and Rosio. It was so much fun to be with Dorita at the game. The team we were cheering for were doing pretty bad until the end. Dorita went crazy towards the end and she would get up and scream every time the team came close to scoring. It was a great game and Canta Bingo ended up winning the game! The car ride home was just Dorita and I. Dorita played her favorite song once again and we danced and sang the entire way home. I learned a little from the song and I sang along with her. We had a great time in the car ride and even when we got back home. Dorita blared the music, which actually woke up a couple people. We danced and shimmed until I went back down to bed. It was definitely an entertaining evening!