Today was sports day at two of the schools. The morning school was at 'Manuel C Figuero and the sun was shining and it was really warm. In the afternoon we went up to 'Maria Luisa Beltranena' and it was much colder. By the time we left three hours later the cloud had come down and we left in thick fog. The road to this school gets worse the nearer to the school and we have to drive on a mud track and parts of it are completely under water. It's a bit bumpy to say the least.
We put together six games and the children were split into groups and had a turn at all of the games. It was great fun. I was in charge of the 'flip flop' game, which was introduced to me at the 'Space' group back home at Leeds. The children in Guatemala loved it just as much as the children back home - it was a great success. Erika was in charge of a balloon game, Klara played a team ball game where they had to pass the ball through legs, Nancy looked after the sack race, Sonya took charge of a tug of war and last, but not least, Antoni played musical chairs. We went through the same games at both schools. It was exhausting but a good day.
We took lots of photographs and now that everyone has digital cameras the children love to see themselves. Another thing we did was to do some face painting and the children were keen and queued up for a flag or a flower painting on their faces.
We have been given the weekend off and we are planning where to go. So watch this space!
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