This week was fun. Ligia (The new coordinator for Costa Rica), Hannah Thompson (a volunteer from New Zealand), and I visited San Rafael school on Thursday. The school is located in a very nice rural district of San Ramón.

We were invited by Nelson Abarca who is a music teacher at the school, and also one of the advanced students from the community English class.

The purpose of the visit was to get to know the school and give the sixth grade class a new intercultural experience. We started off by introducing ourselves, then Hannah talked about her country and explained fun facts like most people in New Zealand know how to swim, and it doesn’t matter where you live, you will always be about 10 minutes by car from the beach. The students asked her questions about the kiwi bird and the already extinct Haast eagle. She commented on the Maori war ritual presented to the adversaries before every sporting event when a national New Zealander team is competing.

The children talked about things that Costa Rica has like a lot of volcanoes, its natural beauty and good food.
The music teacher Nelson performed a song called “My dear school “ with a student named Adrian. He is  a very good singer and wated to show his talent for Hannah

After sharing information on both countries and cultures we proceeded to play some games in the courtyard. The first game was called “the octopus” where one person had to run and catch the others to become the tentacles, while not allowing the rest to run from one side of the court to the other.

The other game was “netball”, a basketball like game unknown to the students until we taught it.  It´s just like basketball but when you are in possession of the ball you are not allowed to move from your spot and you can only move your hands. Both games were taught by Hannah, who volunteers in Physical Education at another school.

The games were very amusing and gave us a chance to interact with someone from another culture from across the world.

The principal of the school, Anselmo Jiménez, was very thankful for the participation of uVolunteer in the activities and expressed his interest in having volunteers in the English class and physical education class during the next school period.

   

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