¡Hola Amigos!
So February 5th was our one month anniversary. To celebrate I went with a few people to Puerto del Diablo. This used to be a guerilla camp during the war. There are two big hills to hike up and the view is incredible. (See pictures). The day was going well until we ran into these machismo guys. Machismo is a big problem in El Salvador. I find it very annoying because women are treated like dirt here. These guys kept heckling us and wouldn’t go away. We were pretty disgusted and annoyed. We were so mad we had to leave and the guys got to stay and look at the view. Oh, well. It was a fun day nonetheless.
Monday in Mariona was our first real English class. We had about 10 students and the lesson was body parts. (See pictures). I drew a funny looking person on a marker board and we labeled all the parts. After we practiced pronunciation (which really bored the kids) we sang “Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes.” The kids loved this game and I think really learned their body parts. It was funny when we taught them “nose” they kept shouting out “no se,” which is “I don’t know” in Spanish. Clever. Then to really challenge our class we played “Simón dice” (Simon says). It was harder for us to play the game than for the kids because we had to keep switching back and forth between Spanish and English. We were supposed to call out the body part in English, but I kept saying them in Spanish. My brain is too slow. I can’t switch back and forth between languages that fast. Overall I think the kids really learned something. It was cool when we went on house visits later and the kids in our class would come up to us and say “Hello. How are you” in English.
Paz,
Stephanie
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