Day Four

Still fighting to get internet easily in the hotel, but Alicia is letting me use hers.  I´m loving Argentina so far.  The people are so nice and friendly here, and very helpful.  Most of the classes ask a lot of questions.  They want to know about Halloween and what we do for Christmas, about sports in the USA, and about what teenagers do.  Here teens go to the disco at night, and the drinking and smoking ages are much lower.  They only have about 20 minutes of homework, usually on the weekends.  They say life in America sounds boring.  Oh well.  It´s better than the other idea from movies that it is all organized crime.

I went to the national park yesterday morning and it was beautiful.  Afterwards I saw a private primary school and then went to another school that had to be cancelled because there was no water.  Today I went to a high school in the morning for three classes and then to a lunch at Alicia´s house of traditional tamales, huaritos (corn and pumpkin in a leaf), and some kind of cookie with dulce de leche.  This afternoon we took the bus to another school and I saw some presentations students had made in one English class and watched a lesson on using FOR or SINCE in another.  Tonight there is one more class and then I am going to the teacher training program for some classes.

I am tired. The days are long here, but I am seeing and doing so much.