Camera in one hand, origami paper in the other I come to you live from Jerry's Club in Guaymas, for the second of two weeks of the summer program.
Jerry's Club is a place where kids can come and hang out, play games, shoot hoops, read a book, learn to roller skate and be inside a compound the size of four basketball courts (some of it is shaded) where they are free from the harassments of the barrio. In side the club, respect and good behavior are the rule. Kids love to be at the club and so the threat of losing access is usually enough to keep them treating each other according to those rules that Jerry set up something like 15 years ago.
It is also a great setting for the class, with shade, but great airflow.
Renee is trying yet another technique that she and many other teachers have used successfully at home to begin to instill community and mutual respect among the children, and in this case, for each other's artwork.
Sitting in a circle each child, while holding a ball introduces them self and says something about the subject of the day. Maybe it is why are you here or what did you like about today's activities? "Because my mom sent me" or "because I heard it would be muy divertido"(very fun).
This is a tool that while using it herself, Renee is teaching it to Jerry, who is here all of the time. It is a great tool to help develop respect and honesty toward each other.
The class begins and ends with this community circle this week.
It was the same lineup as last Monday of Origami boxes, coloring name tags and the covers of cloth notebooks. Creativity, manual dexterity, and community.
Trials of Guaymas:
We have been without water at the house for two days. No washing dishes, no showers and, of course, nothing with which to flush. It is unclear why but, from time to time, the city shuts off the water to one section or another of town. The volunteer house has a tank, about ten feet deep and five feet square that fills when the water flows. A pump pressurizes the the house, and voila, the water flows through the house.
Over the course of the weekend, the tank nearly went dry. When that happens we have to shut off the pump to avoid burning it out. This morning we thought the drout had ended as water began flowing into the cistern again. I went out to prime the pump and get water flowing again before everyone was up. Just as I watched the pressure gage arrive at 40 psi, the line from the pump to the house sprung its second leak in less than a week.
What else could be done. I laughed, and shut it off......
Chiano arrives this later this morning to make repairs.....
I am curious to see who is checking in, feel free to post comments below.
Jerry's Club is a place where kids can come and hang out, play games, shoot hoops, read a book, learn to roller skate and be inside a compound the size of four basketball courts (some of it is shaded) where they are free from the harassments of the barrio. In side the club, respect and good behavior are the rule. Kids love to be at the club and so the threat of losing access is usually enough to keep them treating each other according to those rules that Jerry set up something like 15 years ago.
It is also a great setting for the class, with shade, but great airflow.
Renee is trying yet another technique that she and many other teachers have used successfully at home to begin to instill community and mutual respect among the children, and in this case, for each other's artwork.
Sitting in a circle each child, while holding a ball introduces them self and says something about the subject of the day. Maybe it is why are you here or what did you like about today's activities? "Because my mom sent me" or "because I heard it would be muy divertido"(very fun).
This is a tool that while using it herself, Renee is teaching it to Jerry, who is here all of the time. It is a great tool to help develop respect and honesty toward each other.
The class begins and ends with this community circle this week.
It was the same lineup as last Monday of Origami boxes, coloring name tags and the covers of cloth notebooks. Creativity, manual dexterity, and community.
Trials of Guaymas:
We have been without water at the house for two days. No washing dishes, no showers and, of course, nothing with which to flush. It is unclear why but, from time to time, the city shuts off the water to one section or another of town. The volunteer house has a tank, about ten feet deep and five feet square that fills when the water flows. A pump pressurizes the the house, and voila, the water flows through the house.
Over the course of the weekend, the tank nearly went dry. When that happens we have to shut off the pump to avoid burning it out. This morning we thought the drout had ended as water began flowing into the cistern again. I went out to prime the pump and get water flowing again before everyone was up. Just as I watched the pressure gage arrive at 40 psi, the line from the pump to the house sprung its second leak in less than a week.
What else could be done. I laughed, and shut it off......
Chiano arrives this later this morning to make repairs.....
I am curious to see who is checking in, feel free to post comments below.
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