Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Community Service

This year, my Personal Development and Relations (PDR), teacher gave us 20 hours of Community Service as our final exam. So for the past few weeks I've been going on Mondays to teach some little kids English with Santiago, Fernanda and Agus. Our conversations on the car ride to the school usually start with Agustina announcing that shes going to sleep and to wake her before getting there. Then some weird topic comes up and Agustina doesnt go to sleep, while I have to sit in the back seat of the car with Santiago. The car has two front seats, three seats in the middle, (where the back of a usual car would be )and two seats the back, which usually takes up some space of the trunk. While Agustina and Fernanda are in the middle they leave me stuck in the back with Santiago and all of his weirdness. I entertain myself by bothering Santiago, which always ends with him yelling at me. In the end Agustina doesn't fall asleep and tells us that next time she will.
But, this past Monday was different. Since we had to go in a different car, a smaller car, the seating was arranged in the following way. Santiago in the passenger seat and Fernanda, Agustina, Agustinas' mom and me in the back seat. The car ride went as always until Fernanda looked out the window and yelled out " Que asco!" which ruffly translates to "YUCK!". This obviously made everyone stop talking and look out of the window. Unfortunately for me there was a bus blocking my view. When she knew no one had realized what she was talking about she told us that she had just seen a man pooping on the street. This made everyone in the car say the same as she had few moments before.
From then on everything else that happened wasn't as exciting. We got to the school, waited for the kids for about half an hour. We taught them colors in English and then played some games with them. Its safe to say that it was a fun car ride.

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