Following a full morning of construction (5:15 till 10:00) we are invited to the gymnasium where the high school students had prepared entrepreneurship displays. They worked in groups of 6 to 10 to invent a product and market it. To our surprise we were supposed to judge the projects. We went table to table around the gym. The students gave us a demonstration (usually in Spanish) and in many cases we were invited to taste the product (chocolate, fruit juice) or take on home (various paper flowers, bookmarks). Our favorite project was the fortune cookie group. They were actually delicious and home made by two boys. The presentation was impressive. They even had a kindergartner dressed in traditional Asian clothing bowing to us.
After the entrepreneurship fair, we returned to work. It was time to set the problems. Lots of kids and teachers/staff came by and I took time to explain things. Lunch was delivered to us and was amazing (burritos, pizza and icees). As the school day drew to a close we began to invite kids up to the wall. Two high schoolers were fearless (a boy and a girl). They came up on the platform and gave it their all. The girl’s name was Eva. She was voted Queen of Ahuachapán (their state). I really was impressed with her tenacity. At one point she grabbed a role of masking tape and started taping her fingers like a pro.
At one moment the science teacher came to see what we were up to. She and I talked a bit and discovered that she was one of my students in the Kindergarten class that I did my internship with back in college.
The lingering kids invited us to join them giving out food to the local community. Luke and I decided to go and 12 of us packed into a 3-seat pick up with 10 or more boxes of bagged rice and beans. The food packs were very similar to the ones that we packed last fall with Feed My Starving Children.
Hard to believe that we only have one more full day here.
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