Chacayá Part 2

You can't walk through Chacayá with Greg without someone from every house yelling "GREGORIO" as we pass by. His group has done a lot for the village. Wednesday we went back to tie up some loose ends on many projects, two of which you see below: we met with the middle school faculty to receive their wish list for the coming year, and observed as workers (some volunteer, some paid by the Canadians' group) filled in holes on the basketball court. If there's enough money left over, they're going to build a wall so the ball doesn't go into the coffee field.



Rosa Viviana is the principal of the middle school -- the only woman in the first photo above. I'm planning on going back to the school after I get back from Honduras and Belize. I have the beginnings of an idea of a project I want to do.

I've been doing some math tutoring. My students are university-level hospital workers taking Algebra I or II. Both have difficulties with basic numeric concepts -- 18 divided by 3 does not come easily, for example. My project will be aimed at elementary students to improve numeracy. I have a 9 hour bus ride Tuesday; that should be plenty of time to think!