We had a full week of classes and wrapped up several large academic pieces to the term. Friday evening students hosted their families for a program and goodbye party.
Monday we began a full week of morning spanish classes.Students at Lunch MondayWednesday students preparing to leave the foundation for Casa Goshen neighborhoodWednesday lunchCeleste, Carissa and Anna. Casa Goshen weekly check-in / reflection time. This week we spent some time sharing with students much anticipated news about their upcoming service placements, and we planned our program for Friday. Breaktime during spanish classThe blondies…. missing Skylar 🙂Thursday afternoon students concentrating on their in-class essay for Global Topics class.Anna, Richard, Skylar and Alexa presenting their spanish class’ final project Friday morning.Simon, Sasha, Claire, Erica and Celeste presenting their debate, which is better: summer or winter? (in spanish of course!)Friday evening program scheduleFriday afternoon Nina arranging flowers for the party. Anna and other families Sklyar and host family with Andrew and Richard talking in the background.Carissa, Sasha and family picking the perfect piece! Claire and EricaKlever helped serve drinks, juice, coffee and hot chocolateJackson, Andrew, Carissa, Carolina and Sophia performing their spanish final project, a skit about a Quito legendCarissa and Carolina playing their rolesEvery student shared a few words of appreciation for their families. Maybe even without exactly knowing how to say what they intended, it was a very meaningful time. Students later distributed thank-you baskets to their families and their families were able to share words of appreciation with the students individually. Skylar and Andrew delivering their notes and baskets to their host families.Jackson with his host familySophia with her host familyErica and Carissa with familiesLoli’s classAnna with Profe María TeresaSilvia’s classOur three spanish teachers, María Teresa, Silvia and LoliNo one saw it but us! Here is Simon happily dancing with his host mother after all the guests had left 🙂
Last night (Saturday) we arrived here to Hostal Pakay in Tena, Napo province, enjoyed our first hot and humid amazon rainforest night. We’ll be in Tena for several days and then head to Baños on Wednesday. Regresaremos a Quito el día de viernes and send students out to their individual service placements on Saturday Feb 26th!
