Peruvian eating contests

So part of the field day today was planned by the other teachers at Generation of Leaders and part planned by Kevin and I. After getting a ride down to the beach with our 70 odd water balloons, we joined the chaos that was waiting for us at the beach. There were 60 kids on the beach singing with Alex (the computer teacher, that knows English!!) and Jose (the principal). Tony and Alex's relay included a potato sack race, jumping rope and a wheelbarrow races, which was so cute to watch. I love how kids play the same games pretty much all over the world. Out of my games we ended up ended up playing fire and ice, musical hula hoops (like musical chairs), which Kevin named locura hula hula, which would mean crazy hula hoops in Spanish, tug of war, and had a water balloon toss. Thankfully Alex played his guitar during locura hula hula and the game seemed to be a hit. After tug of war and a little snack we pulled out the water balloons and madness ensued. They absolutely loved the globos as they call balloons and it was kind a strain on Kevin's voice trying to tell at them to get into a line. The twins won!!! Yonell and Leni are some of the coolest kids down here. I think I am even starting to be able to tell them apart. Leni is definitely the more hyperactive of the two and Yonell is usually trying to get in back in line, but then gets easily distracted into whatever mischief Leni is getting into.

The teachers also came up with an eating contest for the kids.. which somehow I got roped into. I had to eat 2 rolls, a very large banana, about 8 saltine crackers and some really strange jello looking stuff. I got second.. it was a tough contest, but everyone was yelling MISS ABBY, MISS ABBY, MISS ABBY!!! and some other stuff in Spanish, which was really cute. I guess I've already got a little fan club of kiddos down here. I really thought that it was only people from the United States that really liked to waste food with eating contests.

There is something that frustrates me about being "American". We think we are the only Americans. Canadians are Americans, Mexicans are Americans, Peruvians are Americas. I guess we just need a better name for our country.. So technically we are United States Citizens...but I never know what to put for my nationality on the customs form. Am I United Statesian? Confusing!!

Angelica, who made me a card in class the other day to help me learn Spanish was basically stuck to my hip all day. She wrote down in Spanish all of the directions and geographical terms that they were leaning in English that day and made me a card. The girls had been trying to teach me some Spanish words before class started and she was giving me some homework I guess. It was very cute. She has a really good grasp at English and really hope that I can spark her interest in it a lot more.

In the afternoon the kids had a fiesta at school, which Alex had talked me into participating in. They were naming their Spring Queen for the school and they came up with a teachers skit that I was kind of involved in. I learned the chorus to Que Canten Los Ninos and sang with some of the teachers who came dressed in baby clothes( I didn't get the memo about the baby clothes of if I didn't I couldn't understand it. I guess it is a song that little kids usually sing. I danced around like the true dork that I am trying to get all of those girls that think they are too cool for school to actually enjoy themselves. Middle schoolers don't change either. I think that is something huge that i realized when I went to England as well. People are pretty much the same where ever you go. The weather, the food, and the music might be a little bit different but we are all pretty much the same.