Wednesday, June 4th:
Today the Cary Academy students started off the day by seeing the Ecuadorian education first hand. We stayed with our respective students for their first two periods. Each student got to see what it was like inside an Ecuadorian classroom. “Unfortunately, it was hard to see what a classroom would normally be like as all the students huddled around the Americans like wolves waiting to pounce on the loan sheep” said James Bennett. The students at Colegio Iberoamericano seemed very interested in talking the Americans.
Next we left the school to see a festival in downtown Loja. The inti-raimy festival is an annual festival “celebrating the gifts that mother earth gives us to survive”. We were able to shop at last as we sifted through many tents of handicrafts. There were lots of jewellery and key chains and other souvenir things. The students (girls especially!) really appreciated all the time to shop. Later we all treated ourselves to ice cream and went back to school.
Once back at school, we went back to our students´ classes. A lot of the students got to go to the English class at Colegio Iberoamericano; and found it to be a lot of fun. The Ecuadorian students would ask the Americans to use English and read to them. But because it was the end of the day, most of the Ecuadorians were anxious to get out of school. After school, many of us were going to see the new Indiana Jones movie, but for some reason that fell through and we ended up going to a party, after which we all went back to our exchange hosts´ families. Tomorrow we all look forward to visiting Aguamania, a water park. We’ll post another update then!
NOTE: The internet has been quite slow and non-functioning at times. Today (Thursday) the internet is better and hopefully many parents should receive e-mails from their students. We apologize for the inconvenience.
Todays blog was written by Nick and Erin.
Today the Cary Academy students started off the day by seeing the Ecuadorian education first hand. We stayed with our respective students for their first two periods. Each student got to see what it was like inside an Ecuadorian classroom. “Unfortunately, it was hard to see what a classroom would normally be like as all the students huddled around the Americans like wolves waiting to pounce on the loan sheep” said James Bennett. The students at Colegio Iberoamericano seemed very interested in talking the Americans.
Next we left the school to see a festival in downtown Loja. The inti-raimy festival is an annual festival “celebrating the gifts that mother earth gives us to survive”. We were able to shop at last as we sifted through many tents of handicrafts. There were lots of jewellery and key chains and other souvenir things. The students (girls especially!) really appreciated all the time to shop. Later we all treated ourselves to ice cream and went back to school.
Once back at school, we went back to our students´ classes. A lot of the students got to go to the English class at Colegio Iberoamericano; and found it to be a lot of fun. The Ecuadorian students would ask the Americans to use English and read to them. But because it was the end of the day, most of the Ecuadorians were anxious to get out of school. After school, many of us were going to see the new Indiana Jones movie, but for some reason that fell through and we ended up going to a party, after which we all went back to our exchange hosts´ families. Tomorrow we all look forward to visiting Aguamania, a water park. We’ll post another update then!
NOTE: The internet has been quite slow and non-functioning at times. Today (Thursday) the internet is better and hopefully many parents should receive e-mails from their students. We apologize for the inconvenience.
Todays blog was written by Nick and Erin.
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