So since I last blogged nothing ground breaking has happened. I did, as expected, return to my carbohydrate heavy diet but I have taken up running after dinner to appease my guilty conscience. In the class on monday the kids were thrilled to hear the news that they would have a test the next day and that it would be longer than the previous one. I spent most of monday evening preparing the test which I actually did make difficult to see how they coped. The results of the test were extremely polarised. While a few of the kids scored around 30/35 and consequently got a smiley face of approval, others did abysmally. I'm talking 3.5/35. Yes. That bad. There is a common pattern where they all seem to trip up on and so I will go over that in the class this afternoon. After that I am going to drum into them the names of jobs in english and get them to ask each other what they want to do. The more time they work as a group the less time I have to spend talking at them which after a while clearly bores them.
The evenings in San Cristobal are a lot more chilled out now, for the volunteers anyway, as a lot of people have returned home in the last week or two and so there's less of an impetus to go out, which is doing my financial situation a world of good. I'm also getting stuck into crime and punishment, hopefully going to finish it by the end of the week if all goes to plan. I shall give you a minute by minute update on how that goes. Yesterday I found out that tomorrow night (thursday night), we are going to camp on the nicest beach in San Cristobal which normally is prohibited but since we are volunteers, we get special access. So after tomorrow night you can all call me Jack Sparrow depending on whether I can get my hands on some rum.
I have now hit the half way point in my trip and time is flying by. Before I know it I will be sitting in Guayaquil airport again for another stupid amount of time wondering where all the time went. Until next time.
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