Friday, January 20, 2012

Well it's Friday now and the students have Saturday off so it's kind of like the last day of the week and what a week it has been! The students are changing so much it's incredible! It has only been a week too! Tuesday was their first day of selling/trading. We started out the day by giving them a lesson on why mexico is great and that money doesnt mean you're evil. Then we gave each team of about five a little seed from a tree that we found on the ground and told them to go out and trade it for something, and keep trading for more and more value then sell what they got and bring back the pesos. One team came back with almost 400 pesos! almost 40 dollars! The next day we continued to break cultural ideas of poverty being inescapable and the rich being evil. We sent them out again that night and had a team come back with over 500 pesos! and Yesterday had three teams come back with over 1000 pesos! their improvement has been incredible and it has been way fun to watch them get way excited about earning money and having success :) I've been teaching english classes too, and it's way harder than i expected it to be. Because every student I have is at a totally different level, Gandhi is really really good but has bad pronunciation, and marisol can barely understand me at all. So its really hard to teach everyone at the same time. Right now ive been mostly focusing on verbs and vocab and answering questions as they come up. Basically I've decided that practice is the best teacher so i only talk to them in english now and am having them give 10 minute presentations in class next friday! Tonight I'm going with some of the staff to an institute dance! I am way excited and it should be way fun!! They're going to teach me salsa and bachata (the two most popular dances here) and I'm way excited! Well I tried not to make this post quite as long so as not to bore you guys too much :) Hope everything is great back in the States!!

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