Semana de los Ninos

Why shouldn't dogs be allowed in your class?!?!

IndoAmericano: where games and dancing occurs

This week is the week of the children.... what does that.. not quite sure! Last Thursday, Zoe and I arrived to i'ndoAmericana to teach our usual English classes. When we arrived to our fist class there was a meeting in the classroom with the parents. At this school when there are meetings they don't wait until after school is over.. they just take up the children's learning time.. it is so ridiculous.. so anyways, we wait for the meeting to end and learn that they were discussing a field trip for the kids to go to Chimbote, a town two hours south of Trujillo. The field trip  is part of "semana de los Ninos"... the wek of the children... there are activities all this week and then on Friday they head off to Chimbote... So we ask the Professor, Santos, if we had classes this week and he tells us no.....so we proceed to ask the next teachers we work with if we had english classes this week.. 2 teachers said yes we had classes and two said no....
   What to do!!! Yesterday was Tuesday.. one of the days we teach there.. so Zoe and I decided to check it out since we were getting the "run around". We go to our first class and they are ready for us.. so we were like great! We do an activity with them  outside in the courtyard... then when we were ready to go back to the classroom for more of the lesson... the door is locked and the teacher is nowhere to be found... oh well,,, so we let them run around the courtyard with the rest of th student body.. we go to the next two teachers and they had no clue of what the schedule was for the rest of the week.. it is beyond me that you can run a school without a schedule.. BEYOND ME.. makes me so sad for these kids.. they already only get 4 hours of school a day and then their lack of scheduling causes them to lose out on even more educational time...
   Even though we didn't have any more classes, Zoe and I decided to stick it out to see what festivities were going to take place.. I was hoping to see some dances  and songs... but instead all we got to see were potato sack races and spoon/egg races! At one point they asked the teachers to be involved in the potato sack races... one of the teachers we worked with told her students NOO so they started asking Zoe and I if we would do it for their class... OF COURSE!!! sadly... not many teachers wanted to participate so they canned that race.. SAD FACE!! i am sure those kids would have gone crazy watching one of the only gringas make a fool of herself!!