We got a puker
Jan 3rd! First day of summer camp for the youth of Playa Samara. We had two awesome weeks planned for this kids, then the following two weeks repeat the activities with the El Torito kids. We expected about 50 kids each day, but really we had no way to comfirm who would show up which days, obiviously were dealing with children and they are the X factor. You can plan a perfect lesson, but you never know how its going to go until that X factor is introduced...
But here are some of the things we had planned, Bean mosiacs, coffee filter "stained glass", Glass Jar tissue paper pretty candle holders, african mask, Under the Sea REAL Wall mosiac.. ENVIRONMENAL DAY, african dance workshop, Latin Dance workshop, and not to mention the viajes -Local rescue ZOO, Coffee plantation, Parque Marino, and the African Safari = Africa Mia!
So the Zoo was first. It went really well. Two trips of about 25 kids each. Smooth. The kids saw native animals that have been rescued and they were pretty excited and well behaved. Then the next trip was to the coffee plantation. Remember, we are working with 50 kids ages 5-12yros... and as soon as we arrive they get coffee, and they help themselves to the fake creamer and the sugar packets. After the sampling, I even saw some kids eating the fake creamer plain... YUCK. SO we do the tour. The kids are doing really well at first... but about 15 mins into the 45 min tour- we lose em.. now not all the kids are naughty, but a select few really just dont listen. They wander around, touch things (and each other) when they shouldnt and it was just a big distraction... plus the tour guide didnt have much energy or enthusiasim, so that didnt help much.. SO as you can imagine we were super relieved to just get those buggers on the bus and head back to Samara...
Now having done these trips before, Andrea and Lindsey were prepared with garbol (motion sickness pills) and plastic bags and newspaper. But up until this point, none of these things were truly neccesary. We are soo close to Samara when Lindsey announces, "ummm chicas, a little help, THEY´RE puking" ... 3 kids are puking... and who do they tell they feel sick?, no one. Where do they puke? Into bags like we had provided? NO! They puke on the seats and on themselves. SO you can imagine the madness... traveling down a Costa Rican Mountain road in a coach bus was children vomiting... Then we get the copy cat pukers.... these are the kids that make themselves vomit and then laugh about it... then we get the attention, "I feel sick, Im going to barf" fakers. Thats right... I love kids, but when they lie.. OOOH how I wanna call them out. One little one, told me she was going to puke, so I give her a bag and a little attention. A minute later she says she doesnt need the bag, meanwhile another girl asks if she puked, then little mientrosa says yes! Oh but she didnt! Hahaha, okay so Im over reacting and all kids like attention, and the forced pukers are worse then the lairs, but I just want to explain this in all its glory so you can fully understand what we went through I think it was a total of 5 pukers, about 10%of the bus vomited = we rock... and this was just the second trip, two more to go... two more longer, farther trips to go... dios nos bendiga...
But here are some of the things we had planned, Bean mosiacs, coffee filter "stained glass", Glass Jar tissue paper pretty candle holders, african mask, Under the Sea REAL Wall mosiac.. ENVIRONMENAL DAY, african dance workshop, Latin Dance workshop, and not to mention the viajes -Local rescue ZOO, Coffee plantation, Parque Marino, and the African Safari = Africa Mia!
So the Zoo was first. It went really well. Two trips of about 25 kids each. Smooth. The kids saw native animals that have been rescued and they were pretty excited and well behaved. Then the next trip was to the coffee plantation. Remember, we are working with 50 kids ages 5-12yros... and as soon as we arrive they get coffee, and they help themselves to the fake creamer and the sugar packets. After the sampling, I even saw some kids eating the fake creamer plain... YUCK. SO we do the tour. The kids are doing really well at first... but about 15 mins into the 45 min tour- we lose em.. now not all the kids are naughty, but a select few really just dont listen. They wander around, touch things (and each other) when they shouldnt and it was just a big distraction... plus the tour guide didnt have much energy or enthusiasim, so that didnt help much.. SO as you can imagine we were super relieved to just get those buggers on the bus and head back to Samara...
Now having done these trips before, Andrea and Lindsey were prepared with garbol (motion sickness pills) and plastic bags and newspaper. But up until this point, none of these things were truly neccesary. We are soo close to Samara when Lindsey announces, "ummm chicas, a little help, THEY´RE puking" ... 3 kids are puking... and who do they tell they feel sick?, no one. Where do they puke? Into bags like we had provided? NO! They puke on the seats and on themselves. SO you can imagine the madness... traveling down a Costa Rican Mountain road in a coach bus was children vomiting... Then we get the copy cat pukers.... these are the kids that make themselves vomit and then laugh about it... then we get the attention, "I feel sick, Im going to barf" fakers. Thats right... I love kids, but when they lie.. OOOH how I wanna call them out. One little one, told me she was going to puke, so I give her a bag and a little attention. A minute later she says she doesnt need the bag, meanwhile another girl asks if she puked, then little mientrosa says yes! Oh but she didnt! Hahaha, okay so Im over reacting and all kids like attention, and the forced pukers are worse then the lairs, but I just want to explain this in all its glory so you can fully understand what we went through I think it was a total of 5 pukers, about 10%of the bus vomited = we rock... and this was just the second trip, two more to go... two more longer, farther trips to go... dios nos bendiga...
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