Last week I had two visitors to the camp. Bryson, a Peace
Corps volunteer who works for Costa Rica Multilingue, came to observe and hang
out on Thursday. He took some awesome pictures of the students that I will add
a little later. On Friday, Christopher Starr, a rural community development Peace
Corps volunteer, swung by to help us take a break from English and teach the
students some games. It was awesome having fresh faces, new accents, and
different activities to do.
This week, from Wednesday to Friday, I am going to a
National English Conference in San Jose and I am leaving my 21 students with
Tara, a TEFL volunteer from my group that lives about a half hour away from
Liberia. She is an amazing teacher, both in English and art. I know that Tara
can handle the class, and I know my students will probably behave better for
her since they don’t know her as well, but I can’t help feel like a parent
leaving their children with a new babysitter. I will ask Tara to write a post
so you can hear about the camp from a different perspective and about all the
art activities that she has planned.
After so much planning, prepping, and organizing it still
feels odd that we are in the thick of camp and it will soon be over. We still
have a ton of information to get through, and it is getting more and more
complicated every day. But these Liberia students are giving everything they’ve
got and I cannot wait to see where they are in just a couple of weeks.
Annie Mott
Peace Corps Volunteer – TEFL
mottanna1@gmail.com
