Las Camelias
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16 Februari 2008 | Nicaragua, Granada
Hi Muchachos!
Its been a while again but that makes it even more worth to read.. :) But I´m still alife (I know that my mom sometimes worried about that when I fail to keep in contact..) Dont worry I´m just lazy..
I´m working in Las Camelias right know, one of the for schools from la Esperanza. My job there is to help in the pre-school and to teach sport and art to first until third grade. The nick name for Las Camelias is ¨the Jungle¨because there is no structure at all. There are 56 kids in the preschool with one teacher and one tiny little class room. There are also 50 kids in the first grade and 40 in the second grade. Only the third grade got only 26 kids but thats because there are just a view kids who reach the third grade. The diferences in ages are huge. In preschool for example are two years old who are dropped there by theyr mother so they have some rest and who are crying for there mothers the whole day long. In the first grade there are 11 years old and in third great farious the ages from 8 until 16..
The school is officialy from 7 until 12 but the director takes every excuse to finish the school early. Our record was at nine o clock! When there is a meating at 3 pm, the school has to finish at 10 am because the teachers need there rest and they need at least 5 hours for that offcoarse... It never happend untill now that the school actually closed at 12.
But the kids are great and it is so much fun to work with them! Especially with sport classes, they are super enthousiastic and they listen pretty good.
Because I only work in the mornings and I need to be really bussy am I responsable for the marketing for La Esperanza with Bryan, a other voluntair. Thats really fun to do, I will also do some tours for tourist to persuate them do donate some money.
But it´s not only work here ofcoarse. i went to San Juan Del Sur with four others. That was great. We rented surfboards and stayed in a hostel with some really diehard surfdudes who are staying there for months and do nothing than surfing all day long. Surfing was so much fun but soo hard to do!! I managed to stand on my board a couple of times but not as much as I wanted. My knees where open at the end. Whe hitch hiked back to Granada and that was so fast. We met some great people and had some rodes in the back of a truck and huge working trucks. We arrived almost 2 houres earlier than the others who took the bus. I think I´m addicted to hitch hicking know. Its Great!!!
This week there is a poetry festival in Granada. It is huge, poetries from all over the world are in Granada to read there poems and every night there is a great concert. Yesterday night there was a carribien regeaband who was amazinly good. The had in the beginnig some profecional dancers and in the end everybody was dancing.
muchos besos!
Nienke
p.s My fotocamera is stolen when they broke in in our house so I don´t have pictures..
Its been a while again but that makes it even more worth to read.. :) But I´m still alife (I know that my mom sometimes worried about that when I fail to keep in contact..) Dont worry I´m just lazy..
I´m working in Las Camelias right know, one of the for schools from la Esperanza. My job there is to help in the pre-school and to teach sport and art to first until third grade. The nick name for Las Camelias is ¨the Jungle¨because there is no structure at all. There are 56 kids in the preschool with one teacher and one tiny little class room. There are also 50 kids in the first grade and 40 in the second grade. Only the third grade got only 26 kids but thats because there are just a view kids who reach the third grade. The diferences in ages are huge. In preschool for example are two years old who are dropped there by theyr mother so they have some rest and who are crying for there mothers the whole day long. In the first grade there are 11 years old and in third great farious the ages from 8 until 16..
The school is officialy from 7 until 12 but the director takes every excuse to finish the school early. Our record was at nine o clock! When there is a meating at 3 pm, the school has to finish at 10 am because the teachers need there rest and they need at least 5 hours for that offcoarse... It never happend untill now that the school actually closed at 12.
But the kids are great and it is so much fun to work with them! Especially with sport classes, they are super enthousiastic and they listen pretty good.
Because I only work in the mornings and I need to be really bussy am I responsable for the marketing for La Esperanza with Bryan, a other voluntair. Thats really fun to do, I will also do some tours for tourist to persuate them do donate some money.
But it´s not only work here ofcoarse. i went to San Juan Del Sur with four others. That was great. We rented surfboards and stayed in a hostel with some really diehard surfdudes who are staying there for months and do nothing than surfing all day long. Surfing was so much fun but soo hard to do!! I managed to stand on my board a couple of times but not as much as I wanted. My knees where open at the end. Whe hitch hiked back to Granada and that was so fast. We met some great people and had some rodes in the back of a truck and huge working trucks. We arrived almost 2 houres earlier than the others who took the bus. I think I´m addicted to hitch hicking know. Its Great!!!
This week there is a poetry festival in Granada. It is huge, poetries from all over the world are in Granada to read there poems and every night there is a great concert. Yesterday night there was a carribien regeaband who was amazinly good. The had in the beginnig some profecional dancers and in the end everybody was dancing.
muchos besos!
Nienke
p.s My fotocamera is stolen when they broke in in our house so I don´t have pictures..
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16 Februari 2008 - 02:19
Bram Leusink:
Strak,
bijna net zo leuk als het echte surfen? Is het niet super relaxed juist dat je alleen 's ochtends hoeft te werken?! Dan kan je 's middags allemaal mooie dingen doen. Xie trouwens op google earth dat er echt vlak bij jou 2 enorme vulkanen staan. Ben je daar al geweest? En diehard oerwoud bezocht? Dat is toch in costa rica en nicaragua ook heel mooi! Vliegt de tijd nog steeds of heb je wel het idee dat je het nu allemaal mooi kan volgen en het allemaal wel aardig klopt? Wel zuur dat je camera is gestolen trouwens. Ben je dan ook al je foto's kwijt, of had je die op cdtjes op geslagen? Snel weer een nieuwe kopen hoor! Kortom, weer een vragenvuur. Hier nog alles same old same old, vriest nu weer lekker stevig en kunnen misschien en nu ben ik heel optimistisch, weer een paar dagen gaan schaatsen. Whooohooow... Ow, nog even een vraagje, ben je al van plan om lerares te worden, of nu juist niet? Nou, geniet er van! JUMPSTYLE!
Kusje -
16 Februari 2008 - 09:11
Mooque:
Hi Nienke, het lijkt wel of jouw schoolhoofd de derde fase heeft ingevoerd. Moeten ze hier ook doen! Net is hier in NL een serieus rapport afgerond door een studiegroep en daarin staat dat de vernieuwingsrondes in het onderwijs van de afgelopen 20 jaar desastreus zijn gebleken. Misschien is de opvatting van deze man niet eens zo gek, dus. Hier alles ook goed, ik heb veel opdrachten en ben dus erg blij dat ik zoveel honden mag schilderen. Geld op pootjes, ha-ha, dat zegt mijn zusje altijd, die een honden uitlaatbedrijf heeft. Lieverdje, hou de inbrekers verder maar op afstand, liefs van je buurtjes in Driebergen! -
16 Februari 2008 - 09:13
Hanna:
mama was idd weer bezorgd;)
wat gaaf van dat surfen! leuk he? surfen..hehe
je kan je fototoestel terug krijgen met je reisverzekreing zei papa, heb je dat al geprobeerd?
kus hanna -
16 Februari 2008 - 20:29
Daniel:
He nienke!
Klinkt goed allemaal. Gaaf dat je les geeft in kunst!
Live reggae en poezie in Granada.. zou willen dat daar ook was.
Enjoy
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