Ami here,
Today was our first day volunteering at the Aldea Yanapay Project. Unfortunately, Mondays are slow days for the school and there were more volunteers than kids, so we weren't able to be actively involved in the classes. We did participate in a group circle at the end of the day where all of the children and volunteers sat together and discussed what they learned, what the common rules of the school were, their favourite moments of the festival that happened on Saturday and the new volunteers got a chance to introduce themselves.
When Pravin and I introduced ourselves, one of the first questions was "De donde eres", meaning "where are you from?". After we told them we were from Canada, the next question was "Hace calor o frio"...and Pravin answered "mucho frio" (very cold lol)...the kids were then asked to guess what the capital of Canada was, to which we got a bunch of raucous shouts of "Brasil! es Brasil!"...umm no...and then "Allemange...Allemange"...no it's Germany either lolol...we were quite amused. We know Canada's a big country, and maybe the kids think other countries fit inside it...who knows, maybe one of the things we can teach them is geography?
Tomorrow is Day 2 of our volunteering. We're also waking up at 8am to hopefully get a warm shower (today was mucho mucho frio!).
Buenas noches,
Ami & Pravin
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