Day
26: August 6, 2012
“Ella
solo habla ingles!” The kids whispered to each other while glancing at me. I
was helping out with the first and second graders again today, but this time we
had the kindergarteners with us too. Victoria, one of the girls in first grade
who knew me a little better, took it upon herself to inform the other children
that, “She only speaks English!” Pretty soon they were all saying it to each
other whenever someone who hadn’t heard would speak in Spanish to me. I wonder
how they would’ve responded if I had said, “Yo entiendo un poco espanol, y yo
entiendo que hablan.” (I understand a little Spanish and I understand what you
all are saying.) They probably would have just giggled.
During
play time, one kindergartener, Debora, played with play dough with me and
chattered on and on in Spanish. I didn’t understand most of what she said, but
we had fun making different shapes and flattening it out and then rolling it
up. Debora would flatten them out and then say that it was a tortilla. We made
towers and snakes and tortillas the whole hour and then it was time to go home.
It was fun day.
I
think I’ll get to help with their class a few more times but this week is going
to get busy as of tomorrow when the next team arrives. I leave Costa Rica one
week from tomorrow. I can’t believe how fast my time has gone! I will miss the
country. But I know that God is the same in the United States as he is here in
Costa Rica. Every experience I am having here I can also have there.
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