CAMPAMENTO LAS MARGARITAS: C2017: Día 8

Today was a day that tested my newfound Dominicatude to the limit as there was so much going on at camp and so many problems to solve at the same time. First and foremost, the Honorable Guadalupe Valdez, who worked with the students at Congress yesterday was coming to the camp to talk about a project she's working on called Zero Hunger which aims to eliminate hunger in the DR by the year 2030. She was supposed to come at 10:30 but we weren't sure how long her program was going to be. So, we decided to do one round of talleres and then see what happens.

In the meantime there was a problem with the science taller. Camila and Charlie didn't have time to plan last night because of the going away party for Richard and they didn't know what the students had done with us in science since they had missed the previous day due to the Congress visit. They decided to work with the electricity projects we had brought with us but needed time to figure it all out. Hmmm. What to do? No worries. We just combined four groups into the art talleres.

Then, the honorable Guadalupe Valdez arrived on time!!! And told us that she had a program that would last an hour and a half and wanted a room where all the campers could fit with a projector because she had a short movie to show. Hmmm. Patience. Flexibility. Well, there isn't a room at the school that fits 115 students. But, lo and behold, the school had a computer lab with a projector and air conditioning. All these years, and I never knew that. Did I mention that the room had air conditioning?

So, we shuffled some things around and had Guadalupe work with two groups at a time while the other groups rotated through their talleres. It actually all more or less worked out. By the way, as all this was going on we needed to get permission slips written, copied, and distributed for the movie tomorrow and then get all the students' names checked for spelling for the certificates that we will be giving them on Friday.

I don't know. I don't think I described the chaos of the day well enough. But We, and I in particular remained calm and flexible the entire time as plans changed on the fly. So, there's that.

Then, on the way home, we find out that Kennel, Tanya's nephew is having a wedding celebration tonight. So, I better go get,showered up as the party starts in 15 minutes.