San Jose was lots of fun again. The weather was beautiful--just a little too hot in the afternoon but nothing like the last time. Here's a picture of me with some of the students:
And here's another one from last time when we were playing in the water (yeah, that's their drinking fountain):
One of the activities we did this week was making picture frames using pictures we took of them two weeks ago. They decorated them with glitter, confetti, and pipe cleaners. Then I got to "engineer" the stand to prop them up (a bent piece of cardboard taped on the back). After that, we made bubble solution using dishsoap, which the kids had a lot of fun with.
We also did a lot of coloring. They colored animals and then had to decide if they should glue them on the ocean or in the forest. And then they colored four cut-out people and four sets of clothes, dressing them in the clothes appropriate for each season. Last, they colored some weird-looking thing that was supposed to be a ham with a face (it wasn't very convincing).
At the end of the day on Saturday we had a movie party for them. They got some fake money, and we let them buy popcorn, drinks, and movie tickets from us. The first movie was "Over the Hedge," and I promptly fell asleep at my desk even though the movie was interesting. When I woke up they were halfway into "Ice Age 2." It turned out that "Over the Hedge" was too boring for the little kids so they switched movies. After all the kids were gone we walked to the neighboring town called Los Angeles about 2 kilometers away (the students that were teaching there rode on the same bus with us), and then walked back in the dark. There were a lot of fireflies along the road.
Back in town, we stopped at a store to get drinks. I was really thirsty and got a liter of milk. Then we played Uno, and I learned a new phrase when the girl to my right told me "I'm going to make you little pieces" in a threatening manner. It turns out that is a very literal translation of "te voy a hacer peazos." I think it's about the same as "I'm going to destroy you." So of course I let her win. After that we ate tomales and watched Napoleon Dynamite.
It didn't rain the next day, so all the students showed up for class at 9:30 after we had our breakfast tacos (tortillas with beans and potatoes). Class was over by noon, and we cleaned the schoolhouse for an hour and then hopped on the bus to head home.