Today was a very emotional day as we said adiós to the kids at Chi Elias. First, Jeanny and the mayor of Momostenango arrived and we had a brief meeting together with parents of students at Chi Elias to evaluate the municipality's role in the project. We also presented the teachers with a board we made to be hung up somewhere around the school to remind them of our Engineers Without Borders and also to post updates on the project.
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| Angela and Carlos presenting the EWB-USA Rutgers board for Chi Elias |
As today was their first day back after a long break, the kids were mostly playing around the school, so we took the opportunity to get to know them better. We learned they really like basketball, games, and pictures!
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| Lesley and Stefan playing rock, paper, scissors |
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| An intense game of basketball. |
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| These girls followed me around all afternoon asking for "¡Una foto!" |
Eventually we did have to say goodbye to hopefully return sometime soon with next steps their new school. After that, we left for Antigua and are now staying in a hostel for the rest of the trip.
We have a lot planned for tomorrow so until then, ¡buenas noches!
Christina
I don't know if you guys noticed this in your community, but in our last community, in NSCI, basketball was very much a girls' sport, marbles was a boys' sport, and both would play futbol!
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