Summer Fun in the Sun!

Hi everyone,

My second summer in Pacasmayo was awesome. I taught recycled arts and crafts with my site neighbor Scotney at my Municipality and the Casa de Cultura, and taught swimming at surf school alongside my sitemate Tim through a hostal owner named Otto and with a huge group through the Municipality. It was an incredibly fun summer filled with giggles, curiosity, imagination, and lots of glitter. In summer school, we made jewelry, photo frames, fish, suns, cranes etc. and the kids had a final project where they used a variety of different recyclables for a final creation. Here are some photos of the classes, the surf schools, and the final presentation of our recycled arts and crafts which was shown off at the "night of the arts event" in my town. Pictures of the awards from the summer's end surf competition to come at another time. Enjoy!

The kids refuse to stay seated 99% of the time

Newspaper beads

The kids tended to get quite messy

joaquin modeling his bracelet

jorge as well!

Yan Franco being adorable. I taught him last year also!

Derly and her flower

Most imagination filled kid ever!

Dayana painting her sun

Bottle-cap magnets

Erika inspired a bunch of the other kids to make cat magnets

Ariana and her piggybank

leomar and his piggybank complete with glitter blush! adorable

Estrella and her beautiful fish!

 

Have you ever seen such a glittery fish?

My new year's resolution was to learn to surf....I'm still terrible

the ever important stretches

local fauna

Carlos riding a nice wave

The teachers and 1 class (we had 60 something students?)

Scotney and I with our gallery

Estrella, one of my favorite students

Steven has the most beautiful/crazy imagination

His final creation was this robot

Stretching/practicing form

Trying to teach correct arm movements instead of windmill arms. sidebar- check out my awesome outfit. you're jealous

haha the ridiculousness of all their arm movements in this picture makes me laugh every time!