So it has been a week since I have blogged. It has been a crazy week, a mix of activities and emotions have kept me mighty busy. I went to the CEBE every morning last week, like I do everyday. The CEBE has class through the week days from 8-12. On Wednesday I went to an inclusion school which was really interesting. I went with the director of my CEBE and another teacher, and we visited a little girl who has trouble speaking. We did language therapy which consisted of 10 minutes of massaging her cheeks, which were really tense, and having her prenounce words like mama and papa. I realized that this only happens for approximately 10 minutes twice a week. Not because she doesn’t need it more often but because my teachers are spread thin and they don’t have any more time to spend with her. This is just the reality…however these exercises are easy enough that if taught parents would easily be able to do them with their children, but like I have found many a times, the parents lack interest in wanting to do these types of things, or really working with these kids at all. This was also something I found when my I gave surveys to the professors at my school, they all stated that most of the time kids don’t attend because their parents have no interest. Now I don’t know if this is because they believe that their kids aren’t able to do this, or will get anything out of it, or if they want to protect their kids by sheltering them, and not challenging them. I will hopefully find more out when I visit the parents of my students, which hopefully will start late next week. I need to prepare a broad questionnaire to guide my conversations, but it overall be really informative.
Last Thursday I went to the Alcalde with my Director another professor and a mother of one of the students at the CEBE. We waited for an hour to speak with him, only for him to leave. I will be doing the same thing tomorrow morning, so wish me luck.
Friday, a day like any other, because the weekends are actually something you don’t necessarily look forward to, because there is nothing to do. Was the start of a tough weekend. For the first time ever in Peru I was homesick. I missed a big weekend back at home, the first Nebraska football game and my dad turned 50!! Both huge moments, and I was the one who had to miss out. However on Saturday I did have a wild game of Monopoly with my sister and her friends. I also made French toast for my family who loved it…TIP use chocolate milk for the batter, soooo good. Then on Sunday my older sister Bellie came to visit for the day. She is doctor who works in Cuba and here in Peru in Chiclayo. We had a great morning with fruit salad for breakfast, and Bellie and I talked for an hour together after. That afternoon the whole family went to the cemetery, where we visited the grave of Miguel, a child my family lost when he was two years old. It was a family bonding moment. We took a bunch of pictures together and then went to Salon Azul a restaurant, where I for the first time ever in my life ate Cuy (Guinea Pig) a delicacy here in Peru. It tasted like chicken kind of, but with less flavor…very little meat…just overall not bad, but not worth it. Afterwards we went and visited more family and then we had to take Bellie to the bus station, which thank gosh the bus left late otherwise we wouldn’t have made it.
I woke up Monday, still with this sickness I have now had for almost two weeks. However Monday was different, my cold has now moved into my chest as well, so I have a really nice and nasty cough. Needless to say I lounged around all day. Otherwise this week I have been going to the CEBE and working with Pedro and the other students. Today I got some Papolotes and have been working on getting all the survey answers that I gathered from my professors on to Papolotes to put up in the directors office, I also need to get a cuaderno to make a goal journal, so as a team the teachers and the CEBE and myself can set goals to accomplish with objectives and track our progress..
I’ll keep you updated more once I get my internet stick but until then, adios!
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