Week 5: Half Marathon and Friends Dinner

This week, we continued our Spanish classes, got out bank cards, and took classes on working with and teaching children because on Thursday we went to teach in an Elementary school.

The school is in a local Pueblo Mágico called Amealco. We were split into groups to work with grades 1-6, about three people per grade. All groups decided on an activity to gauge the kids interest and knowledge on environmental topics. I was assigned to teach thirds graders and my group decided to give them paper and crayons, ask them to draw about what they like about nature, and then make a collage of the drawings. It worked really well! Thursday we only had about 30 minutes of time with the students and we filled the time perfectly.

Afterward we had about an hour to explore Amealco which was enough for lunch before heading out. Here we are before leaving.

Saturday night, one of my friends invited us over to cook. We made shacashuka, an Arabic dish that consists of eggs cooked over a bed of tomato sauce, which we ate with bread and a salad. Then for dessert we ate black bean brownies which which was delicious (and didn’t taste like beans!)

Sunday I ran the Querétaro half marathon. The run started at 6am, it was me and 3 other Peace Corps friends. Essentially all of the roads in the center we shut down for the course, we even ran on sections of highway that they blocked of for the day. I ran with my friend Isabella (pictured below). We ran the whole race listening to 2010s club music!