Friday 1/6: And We Folk Dance!

This morning we headed to a class at 8:30am and that went really smoothly. During our break, we headed to the market, which was unfortunately smaller than normal. It didn’t take very long to walk around and grab some fruit for Catherine. The second class I had went extremely well—the terrible kid wasn’t there!! It was so easy! And we actually had fun because I didn’t have to constantly try to get them to shut up! Maria got to answer loads of questions, including “What is your favorite friend?”—what kind of a question is that?? :p

For lunch we just ate at home, but I had just enough time to give Maria a quick demo of my stilt walking! Then we had to head back to teach two classes this afternoon. I had a lot of fun with the little kids because I started teaching them the colors! We played games and they also got to practice asking Maria questions. The best question was “What did you get for Christmas” (I helped them say the questions in English)—they wanted to know what I got as well, so I had fun telling them about my 3d Butterfly coloring book. I think the 7-yr-olds were impressed. However the expression on the teacher in the back of the room was priceless!

This afternoon we skyped with Mark—yay! All the roommates “back together”!

Maria and I went to folk dancing tonight! They didn’t have the rope up for people to practice on the stilts, so Maria didn’t get to try them. She’ll just have to wait until we get back to Corvallis and I build a bunch of pairs! But, we did get to dance a lot of new dances that were really fun! It was fun introducing Maria to the group here—and I think they were impressed with how fast she picked up on the dances!

When we got home, there was pizza still in the oven from when my host family ate dinner. So, after a late dinner, we went upstairs and watched “The Beginners.” It’s an excellent film that I saw last summer at the Darkside and really enjoyed.

So excited to sleep in tomorrow morning!!

Here's a video of one of the new dances we learned tonight!