Although it may appear that I haven’t been doing anything, I have been so busy that I just haven’t had a chance to update my blog.
June is a very crazy month with international this and that so therefore I have been doing lots of activities. I don’t remember if I mentioned this but the center hired a new woman whose job it is to create activities for the kids. Because doing that task alone is near impossible, we have been working together and trying to come up with all sorts of ideas.
June 1st: International Children’s Day
Despite it being an International holiday, I don’t think I have ever seen it celebrated in the U.S., but in Cape Verde it is a real big deal. Since there is no school we had a day fun of activities. The only problem was when I got up in the morning to go to work and walked to the bus stop to see that the buses weren’t running until 10am (the activities started at 9). So after angrily walking back to my house and calling the center to tell them that I wouldn’t be in until 10, I got to sit down and have a cup of coffee.
By the time I finally made it to the center, none of the events had started but shortly after a group of local university students played different games with the kids, including musical chairs (where the kids ran around the chair and would try to knock each other out to get a chair).
June 5th: World Environment Day
This is a two part program, on the 5th itself we talked about the environment, and had a environmental engineer from the Câmara, talk about ways that we can help. After that we
June is a very crazy month with international this and that so therefore I have been doing lots of activities. I don’t remember if I mentioned this but the center hired a new woman whose job it is to create activities for the kids. Because doing that task alone is near impossible, we have been working together and trying to come up with all sorts of ideas.
June 1st: International Children’s Day
Despite it being an International holiday, I don’t think I have ever seen it celebrated in the U.S., but in Cape Verde it is a real big deal. Since there is no school we had a day fun of activities. The only problem was when I got up in the morning to go to work and walked to the bus stop to see that the buses weren’t running until 10am (the activities started at 9). So after angrily walking back to my house and calling the center to tell them that I wouldn’t be in until 10, I got to sit down and have a cup of coffee.
By the time I finally made it to the center, none of the events had started but shortly after a group of local university students played different games with the kids, including musical chairs (where the kids ran around the chair and would try to knock each other out to get a chair).
June 5th: World Environment Day
This is a two part program, on the 5th itself we talked about the environment, and had a environmental engineer from the Câmara, talk about ways that we can help. After that we
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walked up to the garden and the gardener planted some seeds.
The second part will take place probably this week or next, whenever we have time to fill. We are going to talk about wind energy. We have 3 working wind turbines on São Vicente (and 6 non-working) so we are going to talk about them and than after make pin-wheels. All this wind energy talk is stirring crazy ideas in my head, such as working with the local engineering school to make a wind turbine at the center, since it is terribly windy (university students have already made a wind turbine that is used at the campus)… obviously this is probably not feasible, but a girl can dream can’t she?
June 8th: International Ocean Day
We made a giant poster of the ocean and cut out fish etc and talked about the ocean.
The second part will take place probably this week or next, whenever we have time to fill. We are going to talk about wind energy. We have 3 working wind turbines on São Vicente (and 6 non-working) so we are going to talk about them and than after make pin-wheels. All this wind energy talk is stirring crazy ideas in my head, such as working with the local engineering school to make a wind turbine at the center, since it is terribly windy (university students have already made a wind turbine that is used at the campus)… obviously this is probably not feasible, but a girl can dream can’t she?
June 8th: International Ocean Day
We made a giant poster of the ocean and cut out fish etc and talked about the ocean.
The month of June continues....
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