Nuevo Milenio
Tuesday, July 31, 2018
In Centro Formativo Nuevo Milenio, we played games that students from 8th and 9th grades prepared for us. We were divided into groups of 4. Each group went to a different station and every 20 minutes we would switch stations. We played games like charadas, teléfono descompuesto, and pasapalabra. In charadas, a student would give another person a word in Spanish and he/she would have to describe it till someone guessed it. A similar game is pasapalabra. In pasapalabra, there are two teams and one person from each team is given an item that they have to describe in one word. We played telephone in Spanish. There was also a game called Pedro y Pablo where someone would "call" another person. One loses if he/she messes up.
Centro Formativo Milenio is different from our school. Although the campus is about the same size, there are more grades because it is both a middle and high school. Their classrooms are smaller yet they have more students in each one. As Grecia is a small town of Costa Rica, the students seemed to be closer because most of them live near each other. They talked with everyone and helped us understand what they were saying, teaching us more Spanish. It didn't matter what gender or grade they treated everyone the same. This makes the school and classroom environment more relaxed and less stressful. The teachers have closer relationships with their students making it less tense. In addition, they have a dog named Negra that knows and trusts everyone at the school. She was a stray and the school took her in and nurtured her. The dog serves as a common ground between the students. Even if there was a language barrier between us and our schools are different, they still welcomed us into their community and we had a lot of fun together.
Written by Emma Biswa
In Centro Formativo Nuevo Milenio, we played games that students from 8th and 9th grades prepared for us. We were divided into groups of 4. Each group went to a different station and every 20 minutes we would switch stations. We played games like charadas, teléfono descompuesto, and pasapalabra. In charadas, a student would give another person a word in Spanish and he/she would have to describe it till someone guessed it. A similar game is pasapalabra. In pasapalabra, there are two teams and one person from each team is given an item that they have to describe in one word. We played telephone in Spanish. There was also a game called Pedro y Pablo where someone would "call" another person. One loses if he/she messes up.
Centro Formativo Milenio is different from our school. Although the campus is about the same size, there are more grades because it is both a middle and high school. Their classrooms are smaller yet they have more students in each one. As Grecia is a small town of Costa Rica, the students seemed to be closer because most of them live near each other. They talked with everyone and helped us understand what they were saying, teaching us more Spanish. It didn't matter what gender or grade they treated everyone the same. This makes the school and classroom environment more relaxed and less stressful. The teachers have closer relationships with their students making it less tense. In addition, they have a dog named Negra that knows and trusts everyone at the school. She was a stray and the school took her in and nurtured her. The dog serves as a common ground between the students. Even if there was a language barrier between us and our schools are different, they still welcomed us into their community and we had a lot of fun together.
Written by Emma Biswa
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| Charadas |
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| Harker with 9th grade Nuevo Milenio students |
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