Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Continue moving. Monday I had a meeting with the other diabetes club and it was equally well. It is planned, next meetings I will be giving a charla on nutrition. Cross your fingers and wish me luck!
Yesterday arrived our first WWOOF volunteer! Valentin from France! All morning we cleaned the finca and prepared for his arrival. In the afternoon we showed him around a little bit…I was confused and there actually is no shower, rio it is (hope he doesn’t mind)! I think the picking the leaves off of the manderina trees and making fresh tea won him over and hopefully is worth the no-running-water thing. It’s a whole different experience, I kept saying.
Tonight (Wednesday) we had our second Women’s group meeting—cooking class. Today we made banana bread and cabobs of cut up fruit covered in home made chocolate. Mixed in was a little bit of English class. Mas o menos 30 people showed up which was huge, a few guys. I think it was the food that attracted them, or the fact that one of the women said that we would be teaching English. This is a problem we are starting to face here is that they want to learn English and 1. I am not really interested in teaching English and 2. we are here for a lot more than simply teaching English and this seems to be a concept that is hard to grasp for them. Hopefully people will show up next week and be able to see that we have a lot more knowledge to share than just the idioma that we were raised in. Next week were doing the nutrition charla which will be good practice for the two I’m going to give in a few weeks.
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