This “semester” we at MPI have all been trying out something a little different in place of what used to be our Art class. It’s called La hora tuani, cool hour. Basically, this is a time where the PDs on a rotating schedule can take an hour and teach the kids anything that they find particularly cool. So far, there’s been guitar, kids’ yoga, popular dance, pancake-making, and science, among other things. This has been a cool time (ha - literally) to expose the Farito kids to a wide variety of topics and ideas, experiences and experiments.
So...what do I find super tuani? So super tuani that I’d want to spend not one Tuani Hour, but two playing around with the subject at hand? The environment! Conveniently enough, today is Earth Day, and with the whole world in celebration, the Farito kids, some fellow PDs, and I joined in this week with some pretty tuani activities.
To get them in the spirit, we spent Tuesday making posters to advertise Earth Day and talked a little bit about why the Earth is important. We also talked about how we can take care of the planet, with the kids offering some helpful suggestions (Plant trees! Put your trash in the proper place!). We spent the second half of class making that classic kid pleasing dessert, dirt, except instead of combining oreos, pudding, and gummy worms, we used oreos, flan, and sour gummy worms. It was festive! It was very real looking, but I have a feeling that with so many deviations from the normal recipe, it was unfortunately very real tasting as well.
"Dirt" cups...a little too real
The main event, however, surpassed all expectation. Thursday’s class was completely dedicated to a community clean-up. We showed up today to see over twenty chavalos ready to don gloves and bag trash! They quickly scampered about the dirt roads of Cedro Galán looking for trash, even asking for more bags to fill. In the end, we bagged 26 bags of trash in less than an hour! It was so much fun and so successful that I hope we do it again soon. After all, every day is a great day to take care of the Earth!
little hands, big help!
Do something great for the Earth today!
- Jan Maggi
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