I'm so exhausted I can hardly speak and put a sentence together in English, let alone Spanish! But, we've done it. We've had a successful first two weeks running Art Club in the Sectors. I say 'running', but it really depends on which Educator we are with as to whether they run it, we run it, or, as seems to be the case in some sectors, it runs us!
Anyway, after losing half my body weight in sweat in some of the sectors; getting burnt from the searing sun despite factor 50; getting rather bored of saying "escuchame por favor" (listen please!); needing to pee for hours on end before managing to find a toilet; some, let's say 'interesting' team dynamics; agreements that are made in a meeting on Tuesday, only to be be broken on Wednesday; a mad and video game-esque style road trip with the only taxi driver who was prepared to take us, and his car, into the sectors (and even let us bung some tables in the back so we didn't have to have all the kids sitting on a mud floor again this week in Balerio Estacio); I am still here to tell the tale, just about! I feel like a shadow of my former self. I really should be in bed now but I've got a bit of a blog addiction going on today it seems. I'm doing the Club de Arte specific blog too, which has much more about the art stuff and will have lots of lovely pictures of the kids in action. So if you're interested to see exactly what I'm getting up to and why I'm actually here ;), then have a read by following this link: http://cmap.org.uk/blog
This blog will be more personal; more of a document of my life but it may mean entries are more sporadic as what with an 8.30-4.30 (longer on sector days) job with generally a non-existent lunch hou , preparing for Art Club outside of work and being shattered, I rarely feel like I have much time for myself right now, let alone a life! Haha! Sure it'll get better though once the Spanish doesn't batter my brain quite so much and once we get more settled into Art Club and have a more systematic way of organising sessions and planning so that our evenings and weekends aren't always totally monopolised and if we ever meet anyone outside our immediate team and each other (Helen and I).
Talking of weekends.....tomorrow is obviously Saturday, but believe it or not, I am still getting up at 6am just like a weekday - am I mad I hear you ask? Nope, there is method in this here madness.... I'm escaping Guayaquil -whoooop whooop! A day out of the city - finally! We're going to some mud bathes for some relaxation and i reckon a nice massage wouldn't be out of the question now would it?!
Bring on the mud I say!!!
Ciao lovely people xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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