Week three cont...

Yeah decided to just start another blog for the actual week..Im sure it gets a little boring ready my really long posts.

So Monday we did a really fun activity with tire gardens!! yes it's exactly what you think, we took tires, cut one side so the hole was a little bit bigger, also cut out handles. Then we had to flip the tire inside out. SOoooo much harder to do than you'd think. These are just your regular car tires. It's a lot easier with softer tires, but everyone was able to flip there's inside out. We then planted everything from carrots, to radish, and cilantro. These types of gardens work really well with people who dont have a lot of land. Plus those who want just small gardens or want to be able to move them..although they are pretty heavy to move once they are filled with soil. The guy that led the activity has been in PC forever!

On Tuesday we did and interesting activity talking about behavior change. It started out as a regular lecture which I wasnt super pumped about because they tend to be boring. The facilitator talked about what it takes to make a behavior change. We would be picking a behavior about ourselves that over the course of training we want to change. This really helps us as volunteers get in the mind set of how as we go into these communities we may have all these great ideas on how to make the community "better". In reality this will involve the Ecuadorians to make many behavior changes, and this is hard. So in order for us to understand how hard it is for them to make changes we first need to practice on ourselves in a way..I haven't really thought of a behavior I want to change. Maybe just being more patient in general..not sure. If anyone has ideas on how I should change let me know, lol

Wed we did our community bank. In a way it's kinda a joke because people don't really take it seriously. It's a great practice for when we get into our communities but our group doesnt work the best to respect those who are supposed to be holding some type of authority (president, secretary, etc) Hopefully as the weeks go by we can learn better to work together. Oh just so many ideas to take with us to our communities!

So on the 4th of July there will be a mañana deportiva. Each group (TEFL, youth and families and health) are going to have three sport teams (soccer, basketball, and volleyball) we took some time to talk about the team and chants and stuff. It should be fun! Im going to play futbol and voleibol.
Then that evening we stayed a little later and did a bonfire with food and s'mores for Katya's birthday. It was really fun..reminded me of summers at home :)

Today (thursday June 23) we did another cooking class, food from the jungle. It was this mix of chicken breast with cilantro and this other vegetable that I don't remember all cooked in a big leaf. Really good and healthy!!