Los niños

Que una experiencia con los niños. Nosotros ensenamos a una escuela bilingüe. Yo con tres compañeras tenemos estudiantes de K-2 grado. El primer día fue interesante porque nosotros no conocemos los niños y al mismo para los niños. Fue difícil porque nosotros no conocemos a cual nivel todos estaban. Fue una día de sendero y error. Uno chico gritó y fue tranquila por todo el día. Tenemos problemas porque no tenemos todas las herramientas para conseguir nuestros puntos a través de los niños. También yo aprendido que niños no tienen un atención más grande y necesitan cosas en muchos partes pequeños. Para yo fui una problema porque usualmente no tengo mucho contacto con niños y fui difícil cuando ellos prestan atención especialmente con el primer día cuando yo no tuve un idea acerca de la forma en que responderá a mí.
Con cada día las clases mejoraron. Después de averiguamos cómo mantener sus atenciones cosas tienes más fácil. Tenemos actividades de visuales, colorido y repetición. Los niños aprendieron sobre los colores, los números, parte del cuerpo, los ABC's y hoy "The Very Hungry Caterpillar."
Descubrí que los chicos necesitan más ayudar y necesitan atención. Quieren jugar y no prestan atención todo el tiempo. Las chicas quieren aprender todo el tiempo. Cuando un hombre adulto entró la clase los chicos pagado una mejor atención. A veces me puedo ver como ellos pensando que están concentrado en las palabras. Es increíble. La satisfacción en que yo ayudo un niño aprende algo es fantástico.

Monday or lunes en español

Today was my teaching day. We did activities surrounding "the Very Hungry Caterpillar"and it went great. One of the smoothest classes yet if I do say so myself. I made this lil day by day book about what he ate and wat not, 2 color activities and a marshmellow activity so they could make their own caterpillar. I can't believe I have one more day of teaching. This is going so fast.
It was another day of classes and both were doable today. Surprise Surprise. Afterwards Shai and I headed back to mutil centro and i got them... The shoes which I am currently in love wit, and I got a tee. Now i'm bac and doing work for classes. Seems like such a short day. Which means one less day in Panama not cool.

Love has a name now lol

My weekend

Sooo I had the most relaxing weekend. i decided to stay home with the fam instead of going out on some trip like some of the other ppl in the group did. Friday Shai and I went to Hard Rock Cafe for dinner. What we didn't realize was that there was a lil mall inside in the same area. Amazing but by the time we got there it was almost 8 and the stores closed @ 9 so we did a lil power shopping. I got dad some things and got myself some stuff but was determined to get these shoes but would have to return due to the fact that the store was closed. So we went to Hard Rock Cafe for dinner. AMAZING!!!! i didnt realize how much i missed american food...It was soo freaking good like i cant explain. me & shai were so happy after leavn there.
Saturday i went to casco viejo con mi familia. And of course wouldnt u know that it rained that day soo not cool. But i got in some shopping of course. Got some stuff for u mom and finally for me. though i couldnt find the one thing that i want now. a red coral ring. the one store that had it of course was either 2big or 2 small and it had a matching bracelet. But i cant find it anywhere else so i think i mite just have to go get it. When we got back i went to the movies wit my bro &sis to see "I am Legend" Good stuff ps the movie is inside the mall so ill def have to go back and check it out lol....
Sunday we went searching again for my red ring with no success. Afterwards we went to my mom's sisters house for a bbq. GoOd food lemme tell u. I had to take a lil siesta cuz it was hot and i just ate...well u know how it goes... but ya good times. that's all i really did..till next time

Los jóvenes

Los jóvenes de Panamá son como los jóvenes de los Estados Unidos. Les gusta fiestas, deportes y amigos. Aquí en Panamá las discotecas son muy populares. Guru es una nueva discoteca en Calle Uruguay, cada jueves por la noche es la noche para las damas. Este noche las damas no necesitan pagar hasta once. Hay filas largas para entrar y en su interior está repleto de jóvenes y de sus amigos. Las discotecas son muy interesante y siempre uno se divierte. También aquí la mayoria de edad es 18 años y es diferente de los Estados Unidos.
Los deportes son muy importante también. Mi hermano y sus amigos les encantan fútbol. Cada miércoles ellos juegan fútbol con otros chicos. Ellos pagan para el campo y juegan por 2 horas.

Numero 8, Juan Roman Riquelme juega para Argentina y es el jugador favorito de mi hermano. Una cosa que él y mi hermana tienen en común con los jóvenes de Panamá es el amor a la playa. Muchos jóvenes les encanta la playa, especialmente ahora en el verano. Les gustan el sol y muchos van a la playa con amigos los fin de semana y disfrutan de la arena y surf.

2 week marker

its official ive now been here for 2 weeks!!! that just seems crazy to me...cuz it feels like just the other day i was packing and getting ready to come here. i have to say that im really enjoying myself and besides the whole stomach problem its been a great trip and learning experience.
oh ps i did great on my exam lol

lunes

Today didn't start off to go. I went to bed with an upset stomach and today I woke up with a worse one. It was so painful I didn't think I was going to make it to class today but I knew I had to go because it was my first day of teaching and I had some of the materials that we needed to teach. Isabel, she works here..comes in the morning and does housework, called my host mom and she said my host mom wanted me to stay home but I said I had to go and I'd just get through the day as best as I could. So I get to the school where we're supposed to teach and found out that K-2 was being combined into one class and there's still only 4 kids.
I found that I def am not teacher material. It's very stressful in a way because they're little kids to begin with and your trying to teach them english and they just don't have the attention span for it. The 2 hrs went by faster than I thought they would and now that we know where they are it should hopefully be easier from here on out.
When we were done I found that my host mom had called Julio, he's another guy in charge here, who got in contact with Jorge and they wanted me to go to the hospital. I guess they wanted to make sure that everything really was ok but I felt it was a lil much. When I got to school I found out I wasn't the only one feeling off that day. A couple of the other kids were feeling sick so I know it wasn't just me, but my professor,Jorge, had gotten sick while we were in the mountains and said at most it should just be a 24hr thing...we'll see. But I made it through the rest of classes and am just taking it easy for the rest of the night and catching up on work...hasta luego

Mi artefacto

Mi artefacto fue una tinaja. Una tinaja es un recipiente de barro. La finalidad de las tinajas de agua ha de celebrar. Cuando el agua está en las tinajas el agua mantenga fresco. También no para el agua agua solamente. Usan para bebidas y frutas también.
Las personas que usan las tinajas estan los negros, indios, indígenas y los campesinos tambien.
Las tinajas son de talles differentes dependiendo de su ultilizacion. Los varios en color y detalles representa y es para la naturaleza. Las tinajas se siguen utilizando hoy.