Today, in the 3rd/4th grade class, I taught them the colors of the rainbow. I gave each student a paper with a rainbow on it, and had them write the colors in Spanish and English. After we practiced the words, they were placed in groups so that they can share the crayons and color the rainbow accordingly. When they were done, I taught them the "Colors of the Rainbow" song in English. It was fun! The teacher and other volunteers were so amazed at how attentive and engaged the kids were! This is usually the craziest group of kids in the school! And they were even nice to each other and sharing crayons! I was so proud of them.
In the afternoon, Marisa and I went to the Regional Historic Museum and the site museum of Qorikancha. The people of the Inca empire practiced articial cranial deformation. It was done by distorting the normal growth of a child's skull by applying force. Eek. We heard from another volunteer about a great Japanese restaurant at the Plaza and I had to go try it. It was a great night for some warm udon because it was freezing! We went to Kintaro and for a second we didn't feel like we were in Peru anymore. Haha. The owners are Japanese and the food was great! The Peruvian server placed a pair of chopsticks and a fork for Marisa, and just chopsticks for me. We found that hilarious. After dinner, we went to check out the Kamikaze bar.
