Oh, the double entendres of ESL. My dearest campers now know East Coast and West Coast slang and gang signs, how to say “Oh no you DID ENT!” and a number of other token Queen’s English sayings. Yesterday we bused it to Santiago to go to the MNE Museum – a hands on science museum that is the Chilean replica of the Exploratorium, complete with the same exhibits and same explanation cards, albeit in Spanish. Unfortunately, there was no cow’s eye dissection.
Today a news crew from TVN came to camp for a “live, realistic segment” which highlighted the amply equipped camp and docile students by filming the clip in front of the one fire that I spend my entire day tending in usually vain hopes of feeling my toes and telling the students to pretend to talk in English. If you look closely, you can see some Crips signs being thrown up. LINK.
Winter Camp 2010, amenity glitches aside, was quite a success. I got to pretend like I spoke Spanish and marvel that the children actually do speak remarkable English! Back to good ole Ang tonight for my last bit of Chilean time.
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