week two!

Week two has wrapped up and it was our first week in the schools. I have enjoyed this week so much because the school I'm at is small in size but it  has two campuses which contain different students. The first campus Inca has around 80 students and Zambiza the second campus has 50 students. I have felt that Alana and I will be able to make an impact on the school by being motivational influences to the students. For many of these students this week was the first time that they communicated with foreigners. The students were shy on Monday but as the week progressed have warmed up to our bubbly personalities. The students have also shown that they are eager to learn English and try their best to communicate with us. We are excited to start our lesson plans that will hopefully help the students to feel more comfortable communicating in English.

We have also been preparing for the spelling bee at Calderon next week and had an internal spelling bee between the two campuses to determine who would compete next week. Alana an I were both shocked with the effort that Clara our English teacher and the school put into their spelling bee. It was held outside and Alana and I were judges along with Clara to determine who would move on. The organization of their spelling was amazing compared to what we had witnessed with the schools structure earlier that week.

We also had a few activities as I mentioned the VVOB presentation, and on Saturday we went to the middle of the world and the Papallacta Hot Springs. From this week my favourite activity was for sure going to the middle of the world. They showed us many experiments to demonstrate the equal pressure from both hemispheres( North and South). I also was one of two egg master in our group; which is someone who is able to balance an egg on a nail on the equator. The difficulty with this is getting the raw eggs yolk to run directly down the middle of egg to allow it to balance. This was a great experience and I'm so excited for what the next week has in store .