English Club

I may have already mentioned this, but every other Thursday we have the neighborhood kids who are interested in English come over to play games and do American type activities.

Since it was a few days before Easter, we decided to paint eggs.
Ira, the girl in the middle, speaks English fairly well and she acts as an interpreter for the other children who are barely beginners.


Even the youngest got to participate, though she really just wanted to crack them so she could eat them.


They decorate them very much like we do. They have really beautiful covers that shrink onto the egg in just a few seconds under boiling water.
We told them how we hide the eggs and they were facinated. Their tradition is to have two people hold eggs and then tap them together and the one who's egg does not crack is the winner. Someone convinced Steve that they also crack them on their heads. After getting a good bruise on his forehead they told him they were kidding.

After painting the eggs, Steve taught the kids how to throw a football outside in the empty lot by our house. The first step was to teach them that a football to us was not a soccer ball (that is what they call a football and considering you usually just kick it, I really can't blame them), then how to hold it and after an hour, they all looked every bit like American boys and girls! Though, the minute one of them got a grass stain, she went running home to try to clean it. They REALLY don't like to get dirty!