Celebrating with books
Posted
by
Jenny
on 03 Aug 2010
Hi!!! friends of the book bus in the world. We had an exciting week indeed. We had the regular activies at the schools on the north of Puerto López. It is really rewarding to meet some children that love the books we read to them and they read with us. They enjoy making stories about the sea, the fishermen, the animals and birds of the area. In every visit we have a story to keep in our hearts. On monday 26th, we started the new activity, reading in the bus. The woman that asked for that did not send her son because he was ill and the other children did not turn up...so....we went to the streets and told the children around that we were going to read some fair tales and also asked for pemission to parents we meet also. At the end we gathered about 13 children. They have kept coming to the bus every afternoon and sometimes the number is larger. We organize some activities for after the reading. Now when they see the bus you see children gathering to join us there. Some parents come to the bus when they see their children running towards us, they were a bit cautios about us but when they see the bus inside and see the volunteers reading books they just say thanks and leave the children with us.
On sunday we had a parade, inagurating the Puerto López Cantón festivals. One of the schools of the project were with us, with the bus. They were the attraction of the people and foreign tourists that were enjoying the parade. At the end of the route taken our children danced and I took the microphone to let people know about us. I shared with them what we do and I say a big thanks to welcome us in Puerto López this time. Now People greet us on the street and give us a big smile. They started to know us.
We are all happy that children in Schools when they see us want to have us there for reading and at the end of the morning keep asking about our next visit.
We are doing our best and WE ARE NOW REMEMBERED FOR THE STORIES READ AND LONG FOR THE NEXT VISIT.
Thank you to all of you that are reading this journal, keep supporting us to reach as many children as we can to make of Ecuador a country of books and people that read...!!!!!