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Short videos made by me on my travels

Daycare centre in Chirrollos

This week I spent some time at a day care centre for needy kids. It was difficult, but also a great experience.  I went every afternoon for 2 hours. The centre is for 1 – 5 year olds and they are there all day from 7:45 to 5pm.  I was first introduced to the centre  by Mr Alan Tin-Win of Markham College and a group of girls on their service work. This particular day they were painting one of the classrooms.

The centre is divided into 4 sections: one section for 1-2 year olds, and a classroom each for 3, 4 & 5 year olds. The centre has its own kitchen and the children are given morning tea, lunch and an afternoon yoghurt type drink. Social workers determine whether families need this support. Health care workers visit regularly to monitor children’s health and growth.  There is also a psychologist who visits to meet work with some of the children with behavioural issues, plus gives support to the teachers. A dance teacher who has his own classroom, takes the classes on rotation, teaching them traditional Peruvian dances.  After lunch all the children have a half hour nap and this you will see in the photos.  They are very cute when they are asleep, but when awake, they are a handful. Several of the boys are quite aggressive – certainly more aggressive than I have ever experienced in children this age.  I was pretty shocked at some of the behaviour and one boy I had to keep a hold of all the time during activities as he would lash out at other kids, completely unprovoked. In one of my sessions, two 4 year old boys had a full on fight and had to be pried apart.

Due to my limited Spanish, I took short sessions in English: numbers, colours, greetings and simple songs plus I did some music activities. I only worked with the 4 & 5 year olds. On the whole the kids were very sweet and loved affection. On my  last afternoon they had a “fiesta” which involved all ages dancing and a visit from Barney. I really enjoyed my time there and will go back when I return from the project in Cusco.

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I love Packing (not)

Here is my first experiment with iMovie……

Please watch in full screen with sound.

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Yes I know the jump beats lack precision, but I will improve in between learning spanish vocab

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Español

Español clase : Diá 2………Click on a Pic…..

[wpvideo nG2BGZYy]I will improve……..!  This is day 2…….

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Miraflores flash mob

My first walk around town, I came across a flash mob……. check out the little Peruvian – he totally steals the show with his little solo near the end !

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The local police were  non to happy about this……… and neither was I when I found out that they were actually from a church in Florida, here on a “mission”.  When I asked what their “mission” entailed (expecting perhaps something like working with street kids or the elderly) I was proudly informed that they were doing street ministering (????)

Well at least the little fella is definitely Peruvian and not part of the “mob”….. it was worth stopping to see him.

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Change of plans…

Slight detour on my way to Africa.  Going to court in Canada was an uncertainty up until 1 week before, which made planning a bit tricky.  The Round Square International Service project in Peru needed a female teacher due to a late drop out.  I was interested if I was going to be in North America, but could not confirm. There was a good chance someone else would become available before my plans were finalised.   It all fell into place at the nth hour, so here I am in Lima.

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Pre Adventure: Vancouver

After  2 days in court (don’t ask) I made the most of being in Vancouver by exploring on foot and cycling as well as stocking up on stuff for my trip in the amazing outdoor/adventure shops. Vancouver is really quite a beautiful city.  (but I was surprised at the number of homeless people on the city streets.) Here is a small slide show………

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