El Centro Infantil.

I´ve been working at the day care for more than 2 weeks now. It´s definitely been fun but also challenging. The kids are too young to really care to learn english so my attempts to teach them have mostly failed. I´ll have to keep trying though. They are very very cute but some are real trouble makers. It´s really interesting to compare the functioning of a day care here and a day care in Canada. I worked at a day care in Fredericton last year so I´m able to observe the differences. For one, discipline isn´t the same. Here if a kid hits another one they just tell him to stop and that it´s bad but in Canada he´d probably go for a time out. I guess they just see it as a way of making the kids stand up for themselves. Also, sanitation is very very different. In Canada, we would disinfect the table a couple times a day and make the kids wash their hands all the time. Here I´ve never disinfected anything, only wiped the tables after lunch. The kids simply wash their hands in water before eating, no soap. Their immune system is obviously stronger than ours and we´d probably be more resistant to colds if we weren´t so obsessed with sanitation. It´s just a different way of doing things. There isn´t any set schedule for activities here either. When it´s cloudy we go play outside in the soccer field but when it´s sunny they can´t stay too long outside because their noses start bleeding from the intensity of the sun. So we often do crafts or drawings.

Something else I´ve notivced during my short time here is that people carry their kids everywhere. They tie them on their back with this kind of blanket and bring them wherever they go. There´s no such thing as a babysitter. The day care finishes around one every day and then they go home with either their parents or a relative. It´s nice to see that they spend so much time with their family. You can also see women working in the fields with their toddler tied to their backs. Pretty incredible!

So I know some of you have tried to post something on here but it says that you need to have an account to do so or something. I have now changed the settings so anyone can comment so you can now do so if you´d like. :)
I hope everyone is well and I miss you all very much!!