Masskara 07

So it's Masskara again. The big festival in Bacolod. Like last year, some other volunteers came over and we enjoyed the street parties, cool costumes, and good food in Bacolod. One night we got a private videoke room and had a good time singing. The plaza, the new mall, and the main street through the city were all shut down and filled with vendors, street dancers, food, shopping, and live music. One night we got an up close table to a drumbeat competition, which was pretty neat to see. We mostly enjoyed ourselves, and I was happy to see some volunteers I rarely get to see.

I'm teaching

Here it is: proof that i sometimes teach! This is the warm-up part of a reading lesson about a blind man. (perhaps you know the story? it's the one in the bible where Jesus heals the blind man. It's in chapter 7 of the Grade 4 reading textbook) So I'm making a couple of the kids 'blind' so they can see what it might be like to be a blind person. I made the first kid cross the room to meet me, which he successfully did. But he wasn't able to give me a high five, and on the way back he walked straight into the blackboard - none of his classmates yelled out for him to stop!

Then I gave some kids different things to try and guess what they were. A sponge, a shell, and here is Kenneth, about to guess the silly putty. (He guessed clay, which I thought was pretty good. These kids have never even seen silly putty.)

This was part of my team teaching with Mrs. Sarabia.