Day 26 - same shizzle different drizzle

09-11-09

Woke up at 6am and climbed to the peak of the mountain before breakfast - took about half an hour altogether and was a good workout as it´s such a steep climb. I´m going to aim to do that every morning as I really need to work off all these carbs I´m eating. I don´t want to have to eat less as I like the food here and eating is like an enjoyable hobby for me.

I wasn´t much help for building today as we had to move a giant concrete slab from one end of the garden to the other to cover our sillo. As we have limited tools here and of course no machinery, we simply had to move this giant slab with mere elbow grease....and of course my very helpful motivational cheers from the sidelines!

We taught the kids "head shoulders knees and toes" today in English. On Wednesday we inted to play a couple of games to incorporate them learning colours as well as body parts; that´s where my twister game in finally going to come into play!

After English I spent the rest of the day hanging out with Carla. We did a spot of rollerblading, I showed her how to play a couple of chords on the guitar and tomorrow she wants me to print out some Aventura guitar tabs from the internet shack so we can play some of their songs. I´ll try to play it seriously although I don´t know if I can as the lyrics are sooo bad. I´m sure in one song the lyrics actually went something like: "Baby I am a dog, but my love for you still burns..."... I´m sure I´ll fail but nontheless I shall try to play with utmost feeling.

On a less funny note - no pun intended - I heard from Millie that Mikel (another volunteer, not sure if i´ve mentioned him yet) hasn´t been the happiest as of late and this is apprently because his little sister is made to get up at 5am every morning to do the washing, cleaning etc. It´s upsetting for him of course as it seems that this young girl is being brought up to think that is what girls are to to and be. The other morning Mikel overheard her complaining to her mum that she was too tired, and he could then hear his mum hitting her. This is the first time I´ve heard of any issue to do with gender inequality since I´ve been out here and because it´s the only case (so far, possibly) I´m not sure if it´s a culture thing or just an odd case thing. Not nice either way.