Good weekend, Good Monday :)

This weekend I got to spend time with my boy which was so nice!  We hung out with other PCVs and had a lot of down time to just chill, watch movies, and eat good food (now that neither of us are sick!).  Frank doesn't have classes this week because of some teacher meetings and he also has a training that he's going to tomorrow.  Anyway, he didn't have to leave until this morning, so we left the house together and he caught a bus while I headed over to my school.

Today at Access was really special.  There are no classes for the Access students this week because they are transitioning to the next level of the program and today we had a big meeting with all of the parents.  The students ran the meeting in English and Spanish (they traded off translating for the parents), they gave presentations, and sang a song.

The students opened with a prayer in English because here in Nicaragua, each class (and meeting) usually begins with a prayer and the national anthem.  Their teacher this level, Edwin, taught them to pray in English and one student each morning says a prayer in English.  They did this today and explained to their parents why they pray in English. 

I thought that they all did a very good job with their presentations--most of them made up situations and wrote scripts to memorize to present.  They did this in English and another student explained the skit in Spanish for the parents.  I was very impressed.  It was a nice way for them to show their parents what they had been learning in English, even if the parents didn't understand the content (it was translated though).

This video shows a conversation/skit between two of our best students:

Here one student share what the students in this program have learned so far.