Thursday, March 19, 2009

What have I gotten myself into now?!

It's almost time for Helpx round 2! I finish teaching in less than two months and then I'm off on another adventure. First stop, Julia's casa in Spain! After ten days of tanning, gossiping and eating with Kiki and Julia, I'll be heading over to Italy for more fun in the sun. In order to save a few pennies, Kayla and I have signed up to be helpers again. This time we steered clear of farms with any animals that require feeding or wrangling. Luckily, we found a great family that needs 2-4 teachers to work at their English day camp and help with their 9 year old triplets! Yikes, triplets! Oh well, they can't be any worse than 22 goats. Because this is legit full time job we had to submit resumes to the directors of the English camp. They also asked us to describe our hometowns, traditions or any special facts about our respective states. I immediately went to Wikipedia to scrounge up some facts on good ol' Washington state. Ok, so we've got salmon, Mt. St. Helens blew up - that's pretty cool, we grow apples, we like coffee and Seattle is home to the Mariners and Seahawks. I should have stopped there. Oh, but I didn't. Last thing on the list, Washington state's dance: Square Dancing.

From, Gina, our future host/director of the camp:

We particularly like if you can develop lessons and presentations for the show about where you are from, particular customs, dances and songs. For example, one year we had Kiwis from
New Zealand and they taught the children the Haka.

P.S. We normally do a show at the end of every two weeks so you will also be required to think of 2-3 different things you can do in the show in the afternoon and attend the show to meet the parents.


Smelly goats aren't sounding so bad...

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