Bye bye Cynthia & Bodas de Sangre design presentations

 

"Bye bye/thank you Cynthia"and "thank you Melissa" party organized by the sutdents.

  

Song Melissa taught the students in her English class - they sang it at the party!

 

 A few photos of Bodas de Sangre design presentations... Here's César's maquette

 Carlos' maquette

Francisco's costume design

 Francisco's maquette

 Angela's maquette

 César presenting his costume design concept

 Erika and Raquel during their presentation

 Erika presenting her costume design concept

 Leydi explaining a change in her set, Lili helping out

 Angela explaining her "vision" of the play

 Tatiana taking notes

 Manuel José and Carlos during their presentation

 Ede during his presentation

Manuel José's maquette...

January-February Newsletter

Weaving demo in San Sebastian

nice little video of the weaving loom with Koky translating!

Also I have some more pics at my personal blog at; http://muyalto.blogspot.com/

 Here are some pics of our trip to San Sebastian, a nearby town known for it textiles,  the looms were at least 60 years old and handmade. right down to the gears.  The whole loom shuddered as we had a demonstration by the owner.  They make largely tablecloths, placemats, bedspreads and the like.

We were accompanied to San Sebastian by Mary Culham, the wife of the Canadian Ambassador to the OAS, seen here receiving a card made by the students as a welcome and thank you.  She and husband Allan Culham were responsible for the students travelling and performing in Washington DC last fall.  She paid a visit to Es Artes for the first time and gave a lovely speech to the students

Vicente working on his Tarjeta de Textura on the floor

Escuela Taller Graduation

Graduation day for the Escuela Taller kids. Everyone looking proud and cleaned up. Lots of beaming parents and photo ops.

A little bitter sweet seeing as the school is closed now indefinitely but I understand there's probably some things happening to try and re-open it somehow. The Mayor vowed to fight to re-open it while he is governor. So, I guess I've figured out why he's not going to be the mayor anymore.

About colors and chromatic circles

My 28th Birthday in Suchi

What a great birthday I had in Suchi! As the students were on their break from my class, a few of them came to sing me a song: 

3 Students then invited me to a restaurant for lunch - it was absolutely enjoyable and it permitted me to get to know them a little more. 

A Piñiata was waiting for us when we came back (my 1st ever!). 

Here's Vincente kicking it:

The poor cutest Piñiata on the ground...

À la suite de quoi we had my favorite cake (fruit cake... Hummm)... And later on a drink with the CUSO volunteers/ friends of the volunteers and 35 cents pupusas... Muy rico...

And not to forget, a very "provincially personalized" card made by Jeremy and signed by the students and staff:

...I'm still smiling...