Monday, July 23, 2012

Los niños son los mismos alrededor del mundo.

Los niños son los mismos alrededor del mundo. =
Children are the same all around the world.

There were so many beautiful children in Mexico just as there are in the USA and they were doing similar activities that kids in the US would do for fun.  (I did not see children using their own cell phones in Mexico.  Although at times kids would check out their parent's cell phones.)  I hope you enjoy the pictures and captions.


Above:  Primo Ebert les está mostrando a los chicos como construir con los bloques. = Cousin Ebert is showing the boys how to build with blocks. (The clothes you see in the background are drying, it sprinkled earlier so they were brought inside to finish drying.  It's a rarity for a family to own a dryer in Mexico.


Los primos están jugando al centro comercial.  - The boys are playing at the mall on the equipment.  Yes, the major mall there had playground equipment just like you may find in a mall in the USA.
 After playing hard on the equipment the kids went in with us and had a snack from McDonalds.
Above: Toni & Roberto playing in the plaza.  Roberto (on the right) loves to play keep-away tag. 
 Alexa es la nieta de Marta y está disfrutando su palomita. - Marta's grand-daughter Alexa is enjoying her sucker.  She suckered me into many photos of her so she could Ver - See.  She is nearly 3 years old.
 Jugando con la comida es divertida y es tan divertida cuando puede imaginar que las patatas son anillos. - Playing with your food is fun especially when the chips are shaped like rings.  These chips are not made out of potatoes but a wheat-soy combination that comes in various flavors.
 Toni está corriendo. - Toni is running after church services one afternoon.  This amphitheatre is actually part of a mine and the miners would use this area to entertain one another when they were not working down in the mines. Guanajuato is very famous for its precious metals of silver (and some gold).
 While walking home from school one day I met up with these students and asked for a picture with their Gala Uniforms that you can see in the picture.  These students were excited to speak to me in Spanish and English and are from the school that my Spanish classes will be writing in the Fall, Escuela Federal Luis González Obregón.  Se llaman: Oswaldo con ojos verdes y Emanuel, Enrique, Manuelito, Patricia, Alejandro, y Paula.
 A flower girl after a morning wedding, my apologies you can't see the front of her dress but many people do not appreciate their picture being taken, so I just snapped a shot of the back of her dress.  She wore a furry jacket over the lacy ruffled layered dress.  You could tell she was not accustomed to wearing such a fancy dress but was having fun.
 First Communion requires a fancy dress all in white for the girls along with crisp, white dress shirts and pants for the boys.  Over 200 children taking their First Communion were at the temple dedicated to Jesus of Nazareth in Atotonilco.  Taking first communion at this location is similar to a pilgrimage and very important to the families in the towns surrounding the little village with the "Sistine Chapel of the Americas."
 Open spaces require kids to run and this boy was fast!  He was running down the sidewalk that surrounded the central plaza in the town of San Miguel Allende.
 First graders learning English.  It may be difficult to tell or count but there are 42 students in this class.  They behaved very well as a group but there were still a few that had to be reminded to stay on task. 
 Se llama Frida.  Ella me quiso que yo tomaría una foto de ella.  Her name is Frida.  She wanted me to take a photo of her.  Check out her English workbook where she is learning about animal names in English and the size words: big  - grande and small -pequeño/chico.
 Toni made an art piece at school with seeds and his homework was to go home and create his own piece of artwork with seeds from home.  Here is his artistic creation.  I asked him what it was and he said he didn't know, but I thought it looked like a blue cactus.
 This is a bit out of order but this was a portion of the lesson on the board that the students were learning for the day in their English class.
Kids in Mexico love Spiderman too!  He was part of the Wax Museum (El Museo de Cera).  Check out Shrek below as he welcomes everyone who visits the museum.  Many of the cartoon figures that are popular in the US are also popular in Mexico.

Below, the kids play kick-ball in the alleyway.  They would kick the ball up the hill and someone else would try to catch it.  This was one of the few paved alleyways I saw that was wide enough to play on and did not have cobblestone so it was easier to play on.

 Above:  ¿Cómo me parezco? = How do I look.  These girls are checking out their look in the mirror.  No, I am not in the bathroom! Instead of putting the sinks inside the restrooms at the school they were placed on the outside so that the kids can be better supervised.  They don't have to worry about the pipes freezing outside in Mexico.  It does get down to the 40's and 50's for part of the year so it must be chilly some days having to go outside to use the restroom from their classrooms.
 Above:  End of the year ceremony being performed by the students at Luis González Obregón.  They performed color guard ceremony, sang the national anthem, their school's song, and thanked various teachers and administrators for the final day of the school year on July 6, 2012 and their new school year will begin in mid-August.  They attend about the same number of days we do per year but they do not have a long-summer break like we do in the US.
 Above:  Students from another school out on a final-end-of-the-year field trip to a local museum.  You will note that some of the girls are wearing their gala uniforms with the skirts while the girl in front is wearing a PE type of school uniform.  Mondays and special events require gala uniforms and other days of the week the athletic uniforms are acceptable.  Below:  Check out the maroon uniforms on the students below who are also out enjoying a local field trip.


 My apologies for not keeping up with the posts but I have about 4 more posts I want to make in the coming days.  I was having a hard time with the computer in Mexico and now that I am back I plan on posting more soon.  MUCHISIMAS GRACIAS - THANK YOU VERY MUCH to everyone who followed my blog, prayed for me, and supported me on this trip to improve my classes! 

2 comments:

  1. so they are kids just like us.

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  2. The family you are staying with looks very friendly and kind. The food also looks good!

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