By Sunny Hicken
This week a woman who lives down in Baños del Inca volunteered to come teach a jewelry class. She brought all the materials and had a separate set of beads for the boys and girls to all make necklaces. I’ve never seen so many kids here and have it be so quiet! They were all working hard and absolutely loved it. She promised to come back this week again and bring materials for bracelets—but only for those who’ve done homework! (She used to be a teacher, and it shows. Hooray for teachers!)
We’ve taken some of the empty toilet paper rolls and boxes from juice and such and the kids have created a marble run, taped to the wall with masking tape. They bring marbles from home, but I hope to find some marbles in the market to give out as prizes because the kids love playing with it. And I would like to see them create more, as it involves so many great planning and engineering skills.
My husband was able to get one of the old laptops here running (after taking two of them into a shop and ordering parts and buy a new cord, etc.) It won’t charge, but if we leave it plugged in, the kids can use it. A contest is going on in El Bichito as we are using it with a typing game and Kai is keeping track of scores and teaching them how to type. We found that even the older kids typed with just two fingers, and we know that will hold them back. My husband works with a dentist, Dr. J. Tim Modic in Maryland (http://www.mechanicsvillefamilydentist.com/), who is donating three laptops which Eagle-Condor will be bringing down in November. Then we’ll really have our computer lab up and running! (As you can see, we even have a mom here learning to type!)
My husband was able to get one of the old laptops here running (after taking two of them into a shop and ordering parts and buy a new cord, etc.) It won’t charge, but if we leave it plugged in, the kids can use it. A contest is going on in El Bichito as we are using it with a typing game and Kai is keeping track of scores and teaching them how to type. We found that even the older kids typed with just two fingers, and we know that will hold them back. My husband works with a dentist, Dr. J. Tim Modic in Maryland (http://www.mechanicsvillefamilydentist.com/), who is donating three laptops which Eagle-Condor will be bringing down in November. Then we’ll really have our computer lab up and running! (As you can see, we even have a mom here learning to type!)
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