Wow, looks pretty desolate and uninviting. How are the kids? How many are there in that little town on the hill? What are you doing there exactly? What do you think of the other volunteers and the organization as a whole?
Strangely enough, the terrain in the picture you posted looks a lot like the hills around Lhasa, in Tibet. Perhaps for no other reason than this similarity, I am deducing Lima is at quite an elevation as well? Maybe once you adjust to the elevation you will stop coughing :-)
Thanks for commenting... definately an incentive to write more.
We are working with about 50 kids in from the neighboring communities of San Gabriel and 28 de Julio.
I'm trying to develop a curriculum that will help each child improve their mathematical and verbal reasoning skills. In addition, I want to touch upon health issues that are crucial to each child's ability to succeed in the classroom. More specifics on this a bit later.
So far the other volunteers in Lima are working on more clinically related projects. Some are working on finding cheaper and effective screening methods for TB, others are working on data collection, etc.
Lima is situated on clifs above the pacific... can't be more than 500 feet above sea level. So the coughing is not due to elevation. It's either the massive smog, the humid weather, or TB.
There it is, the community of San Gabriel in Carabayllo.
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Wow, looks pretty desolate and uninviting. How are the kids? How many are there in that little town on the hill? What are you doing there exactly? What do you think of the other volunteers and the organization as a whole?
Strangely enough, the terrain in the picture you posted looks a lot like the hills around Lhasa, in Tibet. Perhaps for no other reason than this similarity, I am deducing Lima is at quite an elevation as well? Maybe once you adjust to the elevation you will stop coughing :-)
Keep writing!
PJ,
Thanks for commenting... definately an incentive to write more.
We are working with about 50 kids in from the neighboring communities of San Gabriel and 28 de Julio.
I'm trying to develop a curriculum that will help each child improve their mathematical and verbal reasoning skills. In addition, I want to touch upon health issues that are crucial to each child's ability to succeed in the classroom. More specifics on this a bit later.
So far the other volunteers in Lima are working on more clinically related projects. Some are working on finding cheaper and effective screening methods for TB, others are working on data collection, etc.
Lima is situated on clifs above the pacific... can't be more than 500 feet above sea level. So the coughing is not due to elevation. It's either the massive smog, the humid weather, or TB.
Cheers!
C
Your curriculum sounds interesting and could be really helpful to your students. Do your students have supplies like paper and pencil?
PJ,
Supplies we do have. Organization we are lacking. Keep reading and see what we end up doing.
Do you have experience creating curricula?
Cheers,
C
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