Today is/was my last day of teaching as I will head off to Cajamarca for a few days and will then continue to Ecuador, making a stop in Máncora, Túcume, Machala, Guayaquil and then to Quito... Might not get online often, don´t worry if I don´t write. And since pictures say more then words... here a movie:
Donnerstag, 6. November 2008
Montag, 3. November 2008
Second week of teaching
I just finished the second week of teaching and am preparing the material for the classes this week... I was thinking of doing the topic "weather", however that gets rather difficult - just one example - most of the kids here have never seen snow as it never gets below 0 degrees in this area. It is now "spring" and I already got sun burnt... Oh, I was looking up on the sky the other night and it looked really beautiful. It made me think of a fairytale yet there was something disturbing about the picture... the moon was in the shape of the letter U! (instead of C or D)
Anyhow. This week I haven’t done that much new. I went to Trujillo with the 4th grade (the kids were really good during the entire trip). The meeting time was at 5am (yes, which means I slept around 2,5 hours) and we got back by 11 pm which was much later than expected caused by a damaged bridge on the Pan-American road... This bridge was being repaired this month as the rain season will start soon but due to global warming (at least that’s what everyone believes) there were showers in the mountains and so the bridge is not safe to drive on anymore. Just imagine - the next bridge is about half an hour up the river and there is no road from there - we drove almost an hour through the desert and all my bones got well shaken. But it had something adventurous about it as we drove at the speed of 50 km/h on this very uneven road...
We visited the Chan Chan (very famous, world heritage) and Huaca del Sol, de la Luna and Arco Iris (pyramids). There is a bit more description with the pictures. We also had some time to look in Trujillo but the bus driver was rather annoyed all day and so we had to run back to Monsefú. I guess he got such a bad mood when we had to wait almost an hours for the last student who overslept - the teachers wouldn’t leave without him. How nice :-)
Yesterday I tried out the local disco and had a wonderful time. The music played around here is quite different and I had some hard time in the beginning copying the steps but seem to have done well when they told me I dance quite OK for someone from Europe... Do the Europeans have such a bad reputation as dancers? I remember being told the same in Africa... :-)
I also went to a local manicure. This place is great! I got even little flowers painted on my nails just to pay 7 Soles (1.75 Euro) for that! I really need to go to that place again and get a massage as well... If I only had more time. I will be teaching just 4 more days in the school and then head off to Cajamarca which is supposed to have really steep streets and some wonderful sites in the neighborhood. I really need to buy a repellent first though; the mosquitoes around here seem to be into European blood...
Anyhow. This week I haven’t done that much new. I went to Trujillo with the 4th grade (the kids were really good during the entire trip). The meeting time was at 5am (yes, which means I slept around 2,5 hours) and we got back by 11 pm which was much later than expected caused by a damaged bridge on the Pan-American road... This bridge was being repaired this month as the rain season will start soon but due to global warming (at least that’s what everyone believes) there were showers in the mountains and so the bridge is not safe to drive on anymore. Just imagine - the next bridge is about half an hour up the river and there is no road from there - we drove almost an hour through the desert and all my bones got well shaken. But it had something adventurous about it as we drove at the speed of 50 km/h on this very uneven road...
We visited the Chan Chan (very famous, world heritage) and Huaca del Sol, de la Luna and Arco Iris (pyramids). There is a bit more description with the pictures. We also had some time to look in Trujillo but the bus driver was rather annoyed all day and so we had to run back to Monsefú. I guess he got such a bad mood when we had to wait almost an hours for the last student who overslept - the teachers wouldn’t leave without him. How nice :-)
Yesterday I tried out the local disco and had a wonderful time. The music played around here is quite different and I had some hard time in the beginning copying the steps but seem to have done well when they told me I dance quite OK for someone from Europe... Do the Europeans have such a bad reputation as dancers? I remember being told the same in Africa... :-)
I also went to a local manicure. This place is great! I got even little flowers painted on my nails just to pay 7 Soles (1.75 Euro) for that! I really need to go to that place again and get a massage as well... If I only had more time. I will be teaching just 4 more days in the school and then head off to Cajamarca which is supposed to have really steep streets and some wonderful sites in the neighborhood. I really need to buy a repellent first though; the mosquitoes around here seem to be into European blood...
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