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| Volunteer commitment! |
The time has come for another volunteer week at the primary school in Montanita. After playing frisbee last time, this time we wanted to try something new, a simple sport that every child knows or should know at least. In physical education in primary schools in Germany, I think the majority of children have tried skipping and learnt the basic movements. When I planned the week with skipping, I assumed more or less the same for the kids in Ecuador. That's why the students and I considered many games, which only require the basics. On Monday, we quickly realized that some children are not accustomed to exercise and their coordination is not the best, therefore we practiced the basics with them. We switched classes every day, so every lesson was very different. Some kids for example had learnt jump rope with their teacher the last year, so we played some funny and advanced games with them.
Besides the photos don’t miss out on the video we took during the lesson!
What do you think about the movie? Keen to join us the next time?!
Let's get back to the beginning. Where would you normally buy ropes for skipping? - Sports outfitters, shopping mall or supermarket? In Montanita or nearby we have none of these...Therefore I went to Manglaralto to buy really long and basic ropes in a "Ferreteria". Just cut them and melt the ends...et viola!
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| Teacher-Intern-Murder-Attempt! |
Like in the first volunteering week we had different classes of various ages, starting with the 5th grade on Monday. At the beginning the lesson always has a little bit of "trial & error". You never know the skills and attitude of the kids and neither how difficult the games might be.
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| Toni explaning the basics. |
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| Abbey just dropped by the school and became a last-minute-volunteer! |
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| Lina! |
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| On the left: Felix. He speaks German, English and Spanish and helped a lot! |
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| High five! |
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| Cam! |
The willingness of our students to help was as always enormous! One must not forget that many skip their lunch break to help.
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| Little kids love Toni! |
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| Marcel & the pros. |
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| Also wanna jump? - We sure do! |
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| Chad & the girl gang. |
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| Three out of four, fair enough! |
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| This is not what it looks like... ;-) |
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| Max and Sarah! |
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| Gunnar & his group. |
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| Una sonrisa porfa. |
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| Happiness. (-: |
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| High five! |
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| Limbo contest got out of hand! |
It was an amazing week, for the students, the kids at the school, and me as well, which encourages me to organize more volunteering weeks and try other sports with the kids. It’s also fun to walk through Montanita when the little ones recognize you on the street and shout out your name.
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Los voluntarios!
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Make sure you're part of the next volunteering week. You might get famous in a short video clip as these students are!
Besos, Michael
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