Today was interesting; the charlas didn’t go exactly how I expected. We met Tiffany at the terminal in Guayaquil to go Colimes. She is the volunteer there and will be replaced by Rebekah. The ride there was rough. The driver was really awful. We almost crashed once. It was also super hot!
Colimes is adorable! The main production is rice so coming into the town there were so many rice fields, really pretty green. Many of the houses are simple wood constructed on stilts surrounded by the rice fields. We started out at t private school, which really just means it’s a little more religious and somewhat smaller.
The classroom was really small, less than 20 students. We started out with BINGO then did the matching game and ended with a true and false game. Most of the students knew the body parts, more than I feel like I knew when I was 12. It was really slow going though. Not really sure why, maybe because the games weren’t really fast paced. But I think the kids had fun. At the end we opened it up for questions and one girl asked what exactly is a sexual relation?! What does it mean? How do you go about explaining that properly in English much less in Spanish?! We said that for everyone it’s a little different because partners very (ex. Man/woman, man/man etc) and that some people don’t consider oral sex to be “sex”. But that it’s everyone’s won decision and you should only do it when you are comfortable. We could’ve got into a lot more but I think that answer was enough.
We went to se the sub-centro and Tiffany’s counterpart. The city is divided by a river, that in the dry season is connected by a sugarcane bridge but in the rainy season washes away and people have to take boats across. Then we went to eat. The second school was quite a bit farther so we took these little motorcycle taxi’s. The coast is normally on vacation right now (they have a different school schedule than the sierra) so there was only one class there. We split the class up and teamed together.
Our group had the older students-30 of them. We partnered with the STI group. The whole time it was like pulling teeth trying to get the kids to participate! They were all so quiet and timid. I'm not sure if it was because they just didn’t know the answers or were just embarrassed because it was a mixture of boys and girls, probably a little bit of both.
All in all it was the last charla and I think even us as presenters were kinda checked out for the day. One of the kids had a belt with a MN Vikings buckle and I explained to him what they were and where they were from because he had no idea. The director and professors there invited us to eat some tpical coastal food afterwards. The 1st was like a tomale with camaron. And the 2nd was corviche, really tasty.
We took the motorcycle taxi’s back to the busses and had an equally bad ride back. So many people were on the bus! We got back and ate Chinese food again. Haven’t eaten the greatest on this trip but it’s kinda like when you go on vacation and splurge, right? Then it was pirate ship night! There is this boat that has a bar/dancing and goes up and down the river for a couple hours. It was pretty fun. I was way too full of food to drink a lot. We got back around midnight and a bunch of people wanted to go out more but Portia, Rebekah and I headed back to the hotel. Luckily we are the group to leave later tomorrow…9 hour bus ride..yay..not..
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