Earth Day 2009! La Banda de Paz (the Peace Band, formerly La Banda de Guerra--the War Band) during the parade through town.
Once a week, the two of us teach English via songs and games to the students of parvularia (kinder). Their participation in Earth Day was clutch.
mariposas y flores
Students show off some chivo (cool) posters they made in the Casa de la Cultura.
The president of the almost-NGO with which we work addresses the crowd. The two of us later gave a well-received speech about global warming.
during the parvularian drama about the growth of a seed
a consortium of the sun, water, bunnies encourage seed
a group of five young butterflies bring it on
Lata Lenta, a character in the play "La Vida de la Basura" (The Life of the Trash)/ The play was written by Peace Corps El Salvador's acting troupe "Gringuissimo"./ The kids from our Eco Club did a great job.
cool hats
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NOTES
The times they are a-changin'. * On May 1, our pueblo's new mayor took power. Our pueblo, like the country, is saying goodbye to ARENA and hello to FMLN. Our pueblo, much more than is common, has a history of changing parties. On June 1, Mauricio Funes of FMLN will become the first left-of-center President in the history of El Salvador. * And now for the weather. The rainy season arrived the other day. It had not seriously rained since October. Hence, the recent rainfalls have been our first in site. It will now rain almost every day until October. Come visit! But seriously, come visit.
Kelly currently has a week of "In-Service Training" out west with all of her Agroforestry/ Environmental Education peers. She will fill all y'all in later.
The United States of America. We are planning a week-long trip in or around July. We hope to do the PA-DE-Jersey Shore circuit. It's been tough being away from the family, so we're stoked to see everyone again. You all rock. We will also aprovechar (take advantage) in terms of eating those foods, drinking those drinks, and taking those sweet, sweet GREs of which we've been dreaming.
