What´s Your Dream Job?

Volunteer from Austria, Valerie Schogler, describes below how she and her team spent the week before summer school planning a special career-focused project for their students.

On the 1st of December, summer school will start for most schools here in Nicaragua.  The volunteers of La Esperanza will be in two schools in the summer. Therefore, we did some special projects with the students in the last week before summer school.


We are all very happy that we could go through almost the whole semester with the same kids and because of that they really grew on us. Saying goodbye was very sad, but this, and the tons of letters the kids gave us, showed us again how important our work is and how much we mean to the kids, not only as teachers, but as friends.

Our English team came up with the idea to ask the kids what they want to be when they grow up. The results were amazing! The kids were super enthusiastic and loved it! We wrote the dream job of each kid on a blank page and took a photo. Afterwards we took some photos of the whole class and at the end we let them sign our T-Shirts as a memory for us.

 
Abajo, nuestro voluntario,Valerie Schogler, describe come ella y su equipo pasaron la semana antes de empezar la escuela de verano. Estaban planeando un proyecto especial sobre carreras.
El primero de diciembre, la escuela de verano comenzará para las escuelas de Nueva Esperanza. Los voluntarios de La Esperanza van a estar en dos escuelas este verano. Por eso, hicimos proyectos especiales con los estudiantes la ultima semana antes de la escuela de verano.
Nuestro equipo de Ingles tuvimos la idea a preguntarles a los niños lo que quieran hacer cuando crezcan. Los resultados fueron increíbles! Los estudiantes lo amaban y tenían mucho entusiasmo. Escribimos las ocupaciones de sus sueños en papel y tomamos fotos de cada uno. Mas tarde, tomamos unas fotos de la clase completa y los alumnos escribieron mensajes de despedida en nuestros camisetas como una memoria para nosotros.


Todos nosotros estábamos muy felices que podríamos enseñar lo mismo grupo de estudiantes durante una semestre entera porque nuestra consideración para los niños estaba mejorando todo el tiempo. Decir 'adios' fue muy triste. pero todas las cartas que los estudiantes nos dieron nos dio cuenta como tan importante nuestro trabajo es y como tanto significamos a los alumnos, no solo como maestros pero amigos también. 

Valerie and her team.
From L to R - Clara from Sweden, Yessenia - ayudante from Nicaragua, Ben from Germany, and Valerie






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