Come Out and Play!

It is Sports Day! On Fridays we do not have classes, instead all of the kids that come to the school throughout the week enjoy a day off to play sports and have a good time. Today we had a teacher meeting at 1pm at the school to discuss some ideas for the foundation. Most of it was lesson planning. Finally at 3pm it was time for some fun! We gathered all the kids at the pitch. I took responsibility of the little ones and did some improvisation. I remembered all the games that I used to play with the Gainesville Soccer Academy and tried doing it with them. We played red light green light, simon says, and "El Lobo". They actually taught me how to play "El Lobo" (The Wolf). We all held hands and went around in a circle singing, “Juguemos en el bosque mientras el lobo esta. El lobo esta?” (let’s play in the forest while the wolf gets ready) then el lobo would answer with what he/she was doing. In other words, the wolf was getting ready to go outside to chase the kids. Once the wolf answered that it was heading out the door, we all had to start running away from it and whoever the wolf tagged became the new wolf.

The older kids played kickball and soccer. They always want to play soccer so we have to hide the ball until it is that time because if not, they will ignore the teachers and just start playing. They climbed trees, ran everywhere and picked up anything to play with it. For some reason, there is Styrofoam just lying around in the barrio and the kids pick them up and play with them. They have such an imagination. It was such a fun day! It felt great being outdoors playing with the kids.