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This week at El Nahual...last week at 27 Avenida?

This week marks the last that we´ll be working at the construction site of the new community center! Well, we think so, at least. J The construction hombres came over for lunch today, whipped up by Chef Pati, and went away stuffed. This weekend we´re going to haul our books, papers, computadoras, desks, chairs, you name it, over to the new location. Update your address books! As of March 8 we´ll be at 28 Avenida 0-64 interior, Zona 1, Quetzaltenango, Guatemala.

 

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This week at El Nahual...goodbyes and hellos

This week we said goodbye to our International Coordinator, Rachel Wakling, who has been with us since the beginning of November 2009. Rachel has done a fantastic job at El Nahual and her energy, sense of humor, and Project Management spreadsheets will be sorely missed. Thanks for all your hard work, all the good times, and the commitment to El Nahual, Rx!

 

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This week at El Nahual…

Today is the last day of the evaluation! All the schools have done it, even the adults at the Saturday primary school. It’s been a week of colouring in, marking and inputing the results – Annah is sporting a nice callous on her right hand! Overall we will have evaluated over 300 students of differing ages. It will all be so worth it when we redo the evaluation after Unit 4 and find that everyone scores 100%!!

 

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This week at El Nahual...back to school!

The Quetzaltenango public schools are back in session, and this week we´ve returned to our regularly scheduled programming along with a few new schools!

 

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This week at El Nahual...

The roll-out of the new curriculum is on at El Nahual! We´ve divided the kids into three groups and have been raining knowledge upon them in the form of numbers, new vocabulary, and different grammar objectives for each week. A group of excellent volunteers has been designing lesson plans each week during our Tuesday Taller de Planificacion. Hopefully by the time Unit 4 rolls around (test time!) the kids will have learned something.

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