Well it was fun but as with all things it must come to an end...Actually, it came to an end a few weeks ago. We completed our 8 week curriculum with the kids covering topics such as:
- Soil and Soil Types
- Trash (both organic and inorganic) and Composting
- What's a seed?
- Gardening Maintenance
- How to Make Natural Pesticides
- Nutrition
- AND SO MUCH MORE!
Lessons Learned:
- Children have the attention span of 5 minutes (and that's only if you have an entertaining/interesting subject)
- They are nice to you before you start class and want to be your friend then they RIP YOU APART as soon as you stand up infront of the class.
- Children love digging holes
- DON'T touch chili peppers with your bare hands while making natural pesticides....I learned that the hard way
- Patience. Patience. Patience.
So now we are starting this project in Alto Tena a community about an hour outside of the lovely city of Tena. One of the Global Citizen Year girls is working with that community and I thought it would be a good opportunity to start a new Gardening/Environmental Ed class with the children. We've got the structure up and on Friday we are putting up the roof and making the beds and building a fence.
Photos:
A few of the kids from the Alto Tena school
A Giant Worm!! Yes they exist...
Me (very tired) and the kids
Lady with a birds nest
All the kids LOVE Clare's hair!!
That's all for now on the gardening/Environmental Education side.
I have decided to set a new goal for myself on this blog. I'm going to do weekly updates no matter how boring and I want to incoporate more facts and history about the culture here and in Ecuador in general. What do you guys think???
Chaoooooo!!!
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