Here is a list of my adventures from this last week:
- We visited la Isla de los Inventos on Tuesday. It's in the old Rosario train station by the river and is filled with various learning stations where kids can engage in different hands-on activities. It was very cool because it encouraged kids to think outside of the box in order to complete the activities. It also encouraged collaboration because at many stations, you would start your own project and then leave it for someone else to finish while you finished the project someone else started. It gave us as future teachers some very good practices for culturally relevant teaching!
- Karie and Terry threw us a pizza party Wednesday evening. It consisted of us eating pizza, telling Ella stories about what not to do in high school, playing LCR, giving Terry and Karie love notes and chocolate, and teaching the 'sorority lean.' The pictures (and Terry's captions) can be seen here: http://cultureandcommunity.weebly.com/pizza-party.html
- I aced my Spanish final Thursday morning.
- Thursday afternoon consisted of a trip to al Museo de la Memoria. We pass this museum every day since it sits on the opposite corner of Córdoba and Moreno from Prats. The building was one of the military headquarters during the Dirty War in late 1970's. This museum displays artistic renditions of the breaking of human rights, and it was really sad to learn more about what happened during the Dirty War and how those acts of violence were present in Rosario.
- I stayed up late Thursday night trying to finish my Mi Aventura project, which is an ethnographic project for my Culture and Community class written in both English and Spanish. Eugenia helped edit my Spanish paragraphs (and modeled for one of my pictures).
- I presented Mi Aventura Friday morning and got a lot of great feedback on it. I still have a little bit left to finish but it will be done soon!
- We watched, laughed at, and quoted YouTube videos (or really just one over and over again).
- We made empanadas, a traditional Argentine appetizer, with Annie and Emily during our Spanish class on Friday. They were delicious and super easy to make.
- I found Starbucks! (but didn't buy anything)
- We had a "goodbye" dinner Friday night at Cívico, a restaurant/art gallery/museum, to mark the end of ESOL A and to have an official goodbye party for Annie :(
- Friday was also Día del Amigo, or friendship day. Argentines celebrate this holiday by bringing their friends gifts and drinking copious amounts of alcohol until the wee hours of the morning. Since it would be super lame to spend Día del Amigo alone, all of us from ESOL A decided to take a walk to the Monumento de la Bandera after dinner. The monument was beautiful at night.
- Eugenia was hosting Día del Amigo festivities at the apartment when I got home from the monument. It was CRAZY. And all I wanted to do was go to bed.
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| Design Possible and Impossible Objects - Isla de Los Inventos |
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| Puzzle pieces depicting the children born but not yet recovered during the Dirty War - Museo de la Memoria |
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| Enjoying our homemade empanadas |
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| Mastering the 'sorority lean' - I'm so proud! |
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