Thursday
3rd April
This
week was full of fun activities for the Rainbow Centre kids. We started Monday
with a visit from a percussion called Pario Paula. They originally are a group
of women from Lima who tour around Peru. They held a musical workshop for the
kids, who loved it. They first performed for us using recycled percussion
instruments and then got all the kids involved. They were all playing different
songs using balloons filled with beans, plastic containers and recycled drums.
I even managed to get Jose Alfredo to hold a balloon and shake it in the beat
of the song, which made both of us very happy. To thank them some of the kids
did a traditional dance with the help of the teachers playing the flute and
drums. Overall, such a nice, energetic and original day for everyone!
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| Pario Paula performing for us |
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| Everyone playing on the stage |
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| Leonel and Lourdes playing the drums |
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Kids shaking balloons and playing the drums
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| Happy Jose Alfredo |
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| Teachers and kids performing |
Another
very artsy activity we have started this week was the mural! I pencilled it all
in on Monday and now we are getting kids to help us paint it. Marina and I
thought it would be a good idea and a fun workshop to get the kids to paint the
base using handprints and then we will add in details to the mural. For now, we
have just worked on the tree and they seem to enjoy it a lot so far. We work on
it every recreo (break time) so it is a slow process but we will get there
surely. Since we are using outside paint, we must use gloves as it is very had
to wash off, but the handprints still show up nicely. So far so good :)
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| Working on the handprint tree |
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Roberth helping us paint
Today,
we had another workshop completely different from the one on Monday, as we made
pizzas! We had experts come in and teach the kids from Funcional how to make it
and then all ate it together. They seem to all enjoy it a lot and got really
into the toppings. We had a Hawaiian pizza, all these different kinds of meat
pizza and simple cheese pizza among others. The younger kids seemed very happy
to enjoy some pizza as well.
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| Pizza no.1 completed! |
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| Profe Rossana and Roberth |
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| Benjamin enjoying his pizza slice |
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| Milagros enjoying her pizza slice too |
Apart
from all these workshops I helped a lot in physiotherapy this week, as there
were a lot of kids. I worked with Benjamin doing speech therapy as he has a lot
of trouble speaking and oly makes sounds to communicate. It is a lot of work
and takes a lot of patience, but even seeing a tiny bit of progress is so nice.
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| Speech therapy with Benjamin |
The
weather has also been really nice and sunny so lots of playing outside with
kids, which is always lots of fun.
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| Fun times with Marina and Fiorella |
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| Ruby a.k.a cutest girl in the world |
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Mati and Benjamin on the swings
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Volunteers
get a day off tomorrow so I will be visiting some Inca ruins in the area I
haven’t seen yet. Slowly but surely completing my Peruvian bucket list :)
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| Colorful Peruvian family on Plaza de Armas |
