Day 6 ~Nicaragua, La Bolsa & San Ramón

Thursday, March 12th:
We got up very early to go to the schools to present our lesson plans. At the first school, we only presented to one class and then ventured to the next school to present to two groups. We started with Evan introducing our group, followed by Kelly, Kim, Britt, and Brad doing a germ/hand skit. Then Jen and Jess had the kids draw germs on hand cutouts. Shannon read a lecture about germs, then Maira/Rosita introduced a beach ball game where the kids pretended stickers were germs and put one on the ball when it came to them. Rosita did an amazing job! Alfter the ball game, I read a story where when the students heard a situation involving germs, they had to raise their hands and scream "Germenes". Once the story was over, I introduced our song! It goes to the tune of "La Bamba". Conchita wrote this awesome song for us. The JMU students made up a dance for the song too.

It goes:
Para lavar las manos
(To wash your hands)

Para lavar las manos
(To wash your hands)

Se necesita un poquito de agua
(a little bit of water is needed)
Un poquito de agua,

Y también jabón, también jabón, también jabón (also soap)

Lava manos,

Lava manos.

It was a hit and we all now have it stuck in our heads. When we got back to Club Chac. we rested and took a couple of hours to finish bagging the donations that we brought. The JMU students were super speedy. I was so proud of my suciecitos! We waited a few hours for the other group to get back for dinner, so to pass the time the students sat around braiding each other hair. Rosita taught the suciecitos a song about oyo en el mar (hole in the sea). We kept adding things to the hole and made up hand motions to go along with it too. It was very challenging and a lot of fun. Samantha thinks that I was so serious and "into it". Hehehehe! I agreed it was AWESOME! Gracias Rosita!

After dinner, we headed to San Ramón to meet the families and sleep. Our group "The suciecito" had a lot to talk about so we all slept outside in the comedor (dining area). After I felt sleep, I heard the next morning that "Big Daddy" had been in the comedor, bearing Tylenol pm so all the students took one and slept like babies. Per Samantha it was "the best nights sleep ever!" The weather was perfect and we got to sleep in until 6 a.m. - late compared to our normal 5:15 a.m. wakeup!