ENJOYING THE EVERYDAY STORIES
Posted
by
Jenny
on 13 Aug 2010
Big Hellooooooo!!! to all of you. The Book Bus going around and around Puerto López. It is exciting to see that the bus causes so much happines to children at the schools. We have had a very interesting week, creating new activities to make children a bit creative. We are using origami and this time we are making the kids draw their hand and cut it out to paint them and glue on a stick. Little by little we are getting their imagination to work. We are trying hard to get that. Every place we visit is an adventure, new kids, new experiences, new stories....new challenges. There are times we have one or two kids of the groups we work with that want to carry on reading so, one of us is dedicated to them while the rest continue in the activies done after the reading. It is one of the greatest presents we can ever get since the book bus is to make children love reading. The group in the afternoons is still coming to us. Among them we have Mateo, the smallest in the group (16 months old), who fell in love with the bus so, his mother came once to us in the street to asked to have Mateo in the bus. We collect him from his mother's work to come to the reading and the driving along the busiest street of Puerto López. He is so happy with us that it is very difficult to have him going back to his parents. Almost forgotten!!!! we have the children bringing their books to read in the bus and share with the others. That means that our work is having a response.
This week was a very short one because one day the teachers went to a meeting to another town and we have a national holiday in Ecuador. The only day we do not work is today because everybody is on holiday. There is a posibility to start a reading group of young people. There is a propposal from one of the tour guides of Machalilla National Park to create a youth group to read books. She knows young people that has to be encourage to continue reading. Our bus has books for young people so, that will be the other activity we will start in the following weeks. It is amazing all that we can do in the book bus. The world of the books is so wide and endless that any idea is welcome to have human beings united through books.
Here we are wishing to have more a more children in the world living in the world of fairy tales!!!!!
Thank you to all of you that keep reading our stories, keep in touch in the heart and support us in any way. We don't know you but we are part of your lives being here reading books in Africa and Latinamerica.
A huge warm hug !!!!!!!
The book bus team.....the volunteers, myself....and each one of you!!
Jenny
Book bus Coordinator
Ecuador